Twitter / X
Real-time social platform with petabyte-scale data and ML ranking systems.
4 Rounds
~14 Days
Hard
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Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain how Kafka partitions work. If a consumer group is lagging behind the producer in a timeline ingestion topic, how do you troubleshoot and resolve it?
#Kafka
#Message Queues
#Troubleshooting
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
You notice a sudden spike in 503 Service Unavailable errors on the Timeline service. Walk me through your troubleshooting steps.
#Incident Response
#Monitoring
#Debugging
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