@venkateshdotdev: Think you know System Design? Try answering these 10 interview questions without Googling. 1. How would you design a UR…
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A tweet from @venkateshdotdev listing 10 challenging system design interview questions covering URL shorteners, scaling, consistency, rate limiting, fault tolerance, and handling traffic spikes.
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Think you know System Design? Try answering these 10 interview questions without Googling.
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How would you design a URL shortener that handles 100M requests a day?
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What happens when your database becomes the bottleneck?
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How do you decide between vertical and horizontal scaling?
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What’s the tradeoff between strong and eventual consistency?
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How would you design a rate limiter?
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When does a load balancer become a single point of failure?
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How do you handle a hot partition in a sharded database?
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What’s the difference between a CDN and a reverse proxy in your design?
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How would you design a system that survives a full region outage?
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What breaks first when you 10x your traffic overnight?
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