System designHardsd-p081

Subject Queues streamingLevel Senior~45 minCommon in Distributed systems interviewsIndustries Technology

Question

Design a system that reliably receives high-volume inbound webhooks from third parties (e.g., payment events) and processes them without losing any.

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

Narrate your design

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Run or narrate your approach, then ask the coach.