Chatburate ✔

One stormy night, Mira’s curiosity led her beneath the city, past crumbling tunnels to the abandoned Argent Lab. Dust clung to her boots as she found the terminal, its screen dormant, until her fingers brushed the keypad. It whirred , and then, a voice: “Query: Why seek the forgotten?” Mira froze. The terminal flickered, alive.

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The platform is technically advanced, utilizing an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows third parties to develop interactive apps and bots for model rooms. This leads to a unique "technological assemblage" of human and machine: One stormy night, Mira’s curiosity led her beneath

However, as Chatburate's capabilities continued to expand, concerns arose about its potential impact on human relationships and employment. Some argued that Chatburate was making humans too reliant on technology, while others worried that it would displace jobs in the customer service sector. The terminal flickered, alive

| ID | Requirement | Acceptance Criteria | |----|-------------|---------------------| | FR‑001 | – each user may send at most X messages per Y seconds (configurable). | When a user exceeds the limit, the API returns 429 Too Many Requests with JSON payload error:"rate_limit",retry_after:seconds . | | FR‑002 | Per‑Room / Channel Limits – different rooms may have distinct limits (e.g., public channels tighter than private DMs). | Admin can set a policy per room ID; the limiter respects the most restrictive rule (user‑level vs room‑level). | | FR‑003 | Burst Capability – allow short bursts (e.g., 5 messages instantly) but enforce average rate thereafter. | Token‑bucket algorithm with burst size; unit tests verify that 5 messages within 1 s pass, 6th within the same second is rejected. | | FR‑004 | Role / Subscription Overrides – premium/subscribed users may have higher limits. | When a user with role premium is in a room with max_per_minute: 20 , the effective limit becomes max_per_minute: 40 . | | FR‑005 | Graceful UI Feedback – client receives retry_after and displays a toast with a countdown. | End‑to‑end test: UI disables send button for the indicated duration and re‑enables automatically. | | FR‑006 | Admin Console – Policy CRUD – UI to view, create, update, delete policies per room or globally. | Admin UI reflects changes instantly (no service restart). | | FR‑007 | Dynamic Hot‑Reload – policy changes apply without downtime. | Deploy policy change to staging, verify existing connections start using new limits within ≤ 2 s. | | FR‑008 | Real‑Time Metrics – expose messages_allowed_total , messages_blocked_total , blocked_by_rulerule_id . | Prometheus scrapes metrics; Grafana panel shows a rising line for blocked messages when a test user spikes. | | FR‑009 | Audit Log – every blocked message is logged with user_id, room_id, rule_id, timestamp. | Log entry appears in ELK stack; can be filtered in Kibana. | | FR‑010 | Fail‑Open / Fail‑Closed Mode – config flag to decide behavior when Redis is unavailable. | In fail‑closed mode, all messages are rejected with 503; in fail‑open mode, limiter bypasses checks. | | FR‑011 | Multi‑Region Consistency – counters must work when users are served from any data‑center. | Deploy two instances behind a global load‑balancer; a user sending from EU and US sees consistent limits. | | FR‑012 | Testing Harness – load‑test script that can simulate 10k msgs/s to verify latency < 5 ms per check. | Script reports average latency; CI fails if > 5 ms. |