1 Million QPS Coupon‑Grab System: Distributed Rate Limiting, Stock Capping, and CAP Trade‑offs
The article explains how a production‑grade coupon‑grab service can survive millions of requests per second by treating rate limiting as a business admission layer, separating stock capping from throttling, making explicit CAP trade‑offs, and implementing a hybrid Redis‑based token‑bucket limiter with local fallback, monitoring, and deployment best practices.
