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System designHard
Question
Design a metrics, monitoring, and alerting system that ingests millions of time-series data points per second and supports dashboards and threshold alerts.
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.
Learn the concepts
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