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Adding a dependency to a service adds network overhead

Growingest.Started 2 Sept 20261 min read#engineering#system-design

Inspired by Design a Distributed Rate Limiter w/ a Ex-Meta Staff Engineer: System Design Breakdown

Where it sits: App servers

Server operation time + network overhead.
For example, Redis operations are quite fast (couple of ms), there will always be network overhead

Connection Pooling

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