Interview questions
Scaling & load balancingMediumSDE-2

Your payments service had a 2-minute outage. When it came back, it immediately fell over again, and this repeated three times. What is happening and how do you break the cycle?

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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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