Anthropic System Design Interview Questions

Joshua K. - "Constrain is the inbound link, so the solution is to download the file once and then distribute it internally, rather than having every machine hit that link independently. So this may call for a central staging node and p2p distribution (bit torrent style)"See full answer

Alok S. - "Functional requirements: user can send an input and wait for the result Group up to 100 individual requests in to single GPU The system should should send results back to the user who requested it when done Non functional requirements: Minimize the waiting between two batches of execution/ reduce idle time error message if a batch faiils Scale to support multiple GPUs Core Entities: Request Batch Result API Design: POST /predict -> {requestid: "", response: ""} req"See full answer

S V. - "I think, robots.txt file is provided by websites which web-crawler is crawling. Am I wrong somewhere or missing some context?"See full answer

V V. - "Simple file system ( Hash Map , LSM trees), and consistent hashing. I failed to discuss about conflicts ( Versioning)"See full answer