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Site Reliability Engineer

System design questions

9 questions on System design for site reliability engineers, easiest first.

Medium 3

Why add jitter to retries?medium
Circuit breaker half-open statemedium
Timeouts in Go clientsmedium

Hard 6

Tail latency with fan-outhard
Outage that outlives its triggerhard
A hot cache key expireshard
Wasted work after timeoutshard
Go service OOMKilled under loadhard
Two leaders after a GC pausehard

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