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Distributed configuration management

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: Configuration

Distributed configuration management, zookeeper is a bit outdated but good for this
Example: The API Gateway keeps an open connection to config server and pushes changes straight away.

Other not as good solutions are that you can poll for config often, or keep them in memory at load time but it'll get outdated quickly

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