From one Docker host to ECS: shared state with optimistic writes, spread and binpack placement, rolling deploys with a circuit breaker, then Fargate with a microVM, an ENI and a lazy image pull per task, for junior, senior and staff.
Infrastructure, platform and reliability engineers.
Your approach: Use diagrams or prose to explain responsibilities, state, capacity and failure behavior. Show the calculations requested by the question.
Design a Container Platform like Amazon ECS on Fargate. From one Docker host to ECS: shared state with optimistic writes, spread and binpack placement, rolling deploys with a circuit breaker, then Fargate with a microVM, an ENI and a lazy image pull per task, for junior, senior and staff. Work from the scoping questions below. State assumptions for any unspecified load, guarantee or target, then trace your design end to end. Explain one difficult case and a credible alternative; the worked example is a reference, not a required implementation.
Resolve the scoping questions for a Container Platform like Amazon ECS on Fargate. Separate stated behavior from assumptions, and identify what is outside your design.
Declare relevant volume, latency, freshness, quality or cost targets with units. Show calculations or an evaluation plan that can test them; unspecified targets are your assumptions, not hidden pass criteria.
Explain how your guarantees hold in a difficult case relevant to this subject. Address: Batch? Spot?
Identify users, required behavior and exclusions. Answer: Scale? Who uses it?
Define the information owned by the system and the inputs, outputs and errors at its boundaries. Resolve: Deploys? Load?
Estimate the dominant workload and resource demand with units and explicit assumptions. For a learned system, also state how quality is measured and what data is available.
Draw or describe the responsibilities needed for a Container Platform like Amazon ECS on Fargate. Trace a representative request, event or job from its input to a visible result; identify durable state owners.
Walk through a difficult case step by step, including detection and recovery. Consider: Networking? Batch? Spot?
Compare a credible alternative using your chosen workload and guarantees. Explain a remaining risk, a signal to watch and when you would change the design.