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Real questions from top companies in System Design/Architecture

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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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102

How do you ensure data quality in an automated pipeline?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinoptimizationpartition3.4 min read
Swiggy
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103

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

System Design/Architecturehardjoinoptimizationpartition2.7 min read
Virtusa
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104

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

System Design/Architecturemediumpartitionsnowflakespark2.6 min read
Swiggy
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105

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

System Design/Architecturehardpartitionsnowflakespark2.3 min read
Netflix
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106

How do you handle exceptions in data ingestion?

System Design/Architectureeasy2.2 min read
Gartner
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107

How do you handle pipeline failures or delays?

System Design/Architecturemediumairflowwindow2.1 min read
Moonfare
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108

How do you handle production deployment?

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HCL
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109

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

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.6 min read
Swiggy
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110

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

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.6 min read
Aarete
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111

How do you optimize data ingestion?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.5 min read
Gartner
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112

How do you pass global variables between pipelines?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.5 min read
Virtusa
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113

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

System Design/Architecturehardairflowjoinpartition2.5 min read
Virtusa
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114

How does HDFS handle fault tolerance?

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Microsoft
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115

How does Presto fetch data from a data catalog?

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Meesho
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116

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

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.6 min read
Coforge
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117

How does data flow through the system? From ingestion to processing and storage?

System Design/Architecturehardetljoinpartition2.6 min read
S&P Global
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118

How to adapt the same pipeline to a cloud environment?

System Design/Architecturehardairflowbigqueryjoin2.4 min read
Daniel Wellington
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119

How to capture data lineage for Spark code, using a DataHub-based example?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.5 min read
Snowflake
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120

How to create a database from scratch and architect it for scalability and performance?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.5 min read
Zen Data Shastra
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