kaorudev/sureup-backend-interview

Sureup Backend Exercise

Goals: Build an api to serve a list of Year Make and Model combinations.

Go to http://developer.edmunds.com/ and sign up for an api key.

Build a server that responds to:

GET /vehicles/year.json

and returns an array of years available ( as strings ) i.e.

[
  '2012',
  '2013',
  '...'
]

---

GET /vehicles/2012/make.json

Which returns an array of all the manufactures who made cars in 2012

[
 'Honda',
 'Toyota',
 'Ford',
 '...'
]

---

GET /vehicles/2012/toyota/models.json

Which returns all the models made by Toyota in 2012.

[
  'Celica',
  'Camry',
  '...'
]

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GET /vehicles/2012/toyota/camry/trim.json

Which returns the different trims a 2012 Toyota Camry was made in.

[
 'XLE',
 'LE',
 '...'
]

---

GET /vehicles/2012/toyota/camry/xle/price.json

Which returns the price of a 2012 Toyota Camry.

Let's pretend our API is awesomely popular and we get 5000 hits per second. Edmunds is now rate limiting us which affects our users. How would you solve this problem?