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DevOps•2025-10-09

From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb’s Key-Value Store

Airbnb evolved Mussel, its multi-tenant key-value store, from simple QPS rate limiting to an adaptive traffic management system to maximize goodput during traffic spikes.

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