Interview questions
Scaling & load balancingHardSDE-3

At 10:00 AM sharp, Tatkal booking opens and traffic goes from 50,000 to several million requests per second, but only a limited number of seats exist. How do you keep the system up and fair?

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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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