Traffic Analysis and Rate Limiting

A Render phone-screen report describes an incident-response exercise framed around an API denial-of-service scenario. The candidate receives three log files and must identify the five source IP addresses responsible for the most requests across the collection. A follow-up asks how to limit request rates. The supplied examples mix HTTP request records with background-job and other service messages…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.