Instruction: Describe how you would keep bursty traffic from overwhelming the system.
Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Describe how you would keep bursty traffic from overwhelming the system.
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I would design queueing as a user-experience decision, not only an infrastructure one. Backpressure should decide what slows down, what...
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