TCS
Large multinational IT services and consulting enterprise based in India.
3 Rounds
~14 Days
Medium
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Interview Question Bank
Software Engineer
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System Design
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medium
What is the API Gateway pattern in Microservices? What cross-cutting concerns does it handle?
#Microservices
#API Gateway
#Security
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
In a microservices architecture, how do you handle transaction management across multiple independent services?
#Microservices
#Distributed Systems
#Saga Pattern
Software Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a scalable URL shortener service like Bitly. Focus on the database schema and the algorithm used to generate the short URL.
#Scalability
#Database Design
#Hashing
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
How would you design an e-commerce checkout system that can handle massive spikes in traffic during a flash sale without crashing?
#High Availability
#Message Queues
#Load Balancing
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a centralized logging and monitoring system for a distributed microservices architecture.
#Observability
#Logging
#Microservices
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