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97. Design a Distributed Logging and Error Tracking System
Ten terabytes of logs an hour from host agents through Kafka into tiered OpenSearch and S3, with regex search, live tail and exceptions grouped into issues.
ClassicMedium
Streaming Search Observability
+7
Distributed systems AWS Error tracking Flink Kafka Logging OpenSearch
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100. Design a Distributed File System
Billions of files, hundreds of petabytes, one strongly consistent tree: a namespace partitioned by directory, chunk servers, replication, repair, erasure coding. One-hour boards for junior, senior and staff, with the theory behind them.
ClassicMedium
Databases Distributed systems AWS
+6
DynamoDB Erasure coding File system Infrastructure Replication Storage
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101. Design a Webhook Delivery System
Signed HTTPS callbacks for a billion events a day, at least once, retried for three days, with no endpoint able to slow another.
ClassicMedium
Queues Streaming Distributed systems
+8
At least once AWS Infrastructure Kafka Reliability Retries Amazon SQS Webhooks
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