Interview questions
Scaling & load balancingEasySDE-1

One of your instances has a full disk and returns 500 errors on every request, but the load balancer keeps sending it traffic. How should health checks be designed?

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Answer out loud as you would in the room — clarify, give numbers, name the trade-off — then compare with the model answer.

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