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Real questions from top companies in System Design/Architecture

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Handling pipeline overload situations

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PayPal
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Have you worked with Oozie? If yes, can you explain what it is and how it's used in data pipelines?

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Infosys
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High-level ETL Pipeline Design using tools like Kafka or Flink for new use cases?

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Snowflake
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How do you ensure data quality and consistency in your pipelines?

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American Express
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How do you ensure data quality in a big data pipeline, and what strategies do you use for data validation?

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Coforge
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106

How do you ensure data quality in an automated pipeline?

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Swiggy
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107

How do you ensure fault tolerance during large-scale data migrations?

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Virtusa
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108

How do you ensure the scalability of a data pipeline handling rapidly growing data volumes?

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Swiggy
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109

How do you ensure your pipelines are serving reliable and correct data?

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Netflix
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110

How do you handle exceptions in data ingestion?

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Gartner
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111

How do you handle pipeline failures or delays?

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Moonfare
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112

How do you handle production deployment?

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HCL
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113

How do you handle schema evolution in a system with multiple data sources and consumers?

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Swiggy
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114

How do you monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline failures in Data Fusion?

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Aarete
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115

How do you optimize data ingestion?

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Gartner
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116

How do you pass global variables between pipelines?

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Virtusa
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117

How do you use dependency tracing to identify root causes in pipeline failures?

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Virtusa
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118

How does HDFS handle fault tolerance?

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Microsoft
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119

How does Presto fetch data from a data catalog?

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Meesho
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How does Spark handle distributed computing, and what challenges have you faced while working on distributed systems?

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Coforge
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