Code RoomGNN serving at scale
HardPrep Room Coding #3232

GNN serving at scale

System designML systemsNetworking & APIsSenior–Staff~45 min

Design online serving for a graph neural network that powers 'people/items you may know' on a social graph with 1B nodes and 100B edges. The GNN's prediction for a node depends on aggregating its multi-hop neighborhood, so a naive online forward pass would have to fetch and process an exploding number of neighbors per request — infeasible within a serving latency budget. Design the system so GNN-powered recommendations are served at scale and low latency, and explain how you avoid the neighbor-explosion problem online.

What a strong answer looks like

Clarify scale and constraints first. Propose a clean component breakdown, then go deep on the hard parts (data model, bottlenecks, consistency, failure modes) and name the trade-offs you are making.

Clarify5:00 left
Estimate5:00 planned
Design15:00 planned
Deep dive12:00 planned
Failure8:00 planned
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