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Asked at Databricks • a month ago
Design a document processing pipeline.
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"A document processing pipeline means step-by-step handling of documents. First we upload the file, then system checks and cleans it. After that OCR or NLP is used to take out text. The text is classified and important details are picked, then saved in database for use. This type of pipeline is useful because it saves time and reduces manual work. Instead of people reading and typing data, the system can automatically process large numbers of documents quickly. It also improves accuracy, keeps d"
Abu H. - "A document processing pipeline means step-by-step handling of documents. First we upload the file, then system checks and cleans it. After that OCR or NLP is used to take out text. The text is classified and important details are picked, then saved in database for use. This type of pipeline is useful because it saves time and reduces manual work. Instead of people reading and typing data, the system can automatically process large numbers of documents quickly. It also improves accuracy, keeps d"See full answer
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Asked at Databricks • 9 months ago
What's the difference between a data lakehouse and a data warehouse?
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"Data lake and warehouse are both places that allow an organization to store large amounts of data. When swimming in a lake, one would imagine that they come across all sorts of stuff - floating twigs, fish in the water, stones, chemicals and sometimes may be even a snake. Similarly, a data lake stores all forms of data that the company has without any indexing. The data is available at any time but needs to be first cleaned up and reorganized before it can be used for any type of analysis. A"
Kshitij I. - "Data lake and warehouse are both places that allow an organization to store large amounts of data. When swimming in a lake, one would imagine that they come across all sorts of stuff - floating twigs, fish in the water, stones, chemicals and sometimes may be even a snake. Similarly, a data lake stores all forms of data that the company has without any indexing. The data is available at any time but needs to be first cleaned up and reorganized before it can be used for any type of analysis. A"See full answer
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Design an ETL Pipeline for a ML Platform for AWS
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Design Netflix's Clickstream Data Pipeline
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Asked at Databricks • 9 months ago
How would you handle slow query performance for a single-user SQL endpoint in Databricks, where all sequentially run queries are affected?
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Design an ETL Pipeline for Slack for School
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Asked at Google • 10 months ago
When is Hadoop better than PySpark?
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"Hadoop is better than PySpark when you are dealing with extremely large scale, batch oriented, non-iterative workloads where in-memory computing isn't feasible/ necessary, like log storage or ETL workflows that don't require high response times. It's also better in situations where the Hadoop ecosystem is already deeply embedded and where there is a need for resource conscious, fault tolerant computation without the overhead of Spark's memory constraints. In these such scenarios, Hadoop's disk-b"
Joshua R. - "Hadoop is better than PySpark when you are dealing with extremely large scale, batch oriented, non-iterative workloads where in-memory computing isn't feasible/ necessary, like log storage or ETL workflows that don't require high response times. It's also better in situations where the Hadoop ecosystem is already deeply embedded and where there is a need for resource conscious, fault tolerant computation without the overhead of Spark's memory constraints. In these such scenarios, Hadoop's disk-b"See full answer
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Asked at Amazon • 2 years ago
Design a data pipeline that updates hourly and powers a dashboard showing the most common Alexa user requests, broken down by country.
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Asked at Databricks • 9 months ago
How would you handle scheduling dependencies between two nightly Jobs to ensure the second Job does not fail if the first Job runs longer than expected?
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"There are 2 questions popping into my mind: Should the 2nd job have to kick off at 12:30AM? Are there others depending on the 2nd job? If both answers are no, we may simply postpone the second job to allow sufficient time for the first one to complete. If they are yeses, we could let the 2nd job retry to a certain amount of times. Make sure that even reaching the maximum of retries won't delay or fail the following jobs."
Anzhe M. - "There are 2 questions popping into my mind: Should the 2nd job have to kick off at 12:30AM? Are there others depending on the 2nd job? If both answers are no, we may simply postpone the second job to allow sufficient time for the first one to complete. If they are yeses, we could let the 2nd job retry to a certain amount of times. Make sure that even reaching the maximum of retries won't delay or fail the following jobs."See full answer
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Design a data pipeline that complies with GDPR.
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Asked at Databricks • 9 months ago
What is a Medallion Architecture?
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Asked at Databricks • 9 months ago
How would you handle a task in a nightly job that fails unexpectedly during 10 percent of the runs?
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Design a system to ingest large amounts of JSON data from multiple S3 buckets
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Asked at Databricks • 9 months ago
When should you use Delta Live Tables over standard data pipelines built on Spark and Delta Lake?
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Asked at Databricks • 9 months ago
What is delta lake?
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Asked at Databricks • 9 months ago
When should you use a job cluster instead of an all-purpose cluster?
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Data Pipeline Design Interview Questions

Design a document processing pipeline.

What's the difference between a data lakehouse and a data warehouse?

Design an ETL Pipeline for a ML Platform for AWS

Design Netflix's Clickstream Data Pipeline

How would you handle slow query performance for a single-user SQL endpoint in Databricks, where all sequentially run queries are affected?

Design an ETL Pipeline for Slack for School

When is Hadoop better than PySpark?

Design a data pipeline that updates hourly and powers a dashboard showing the most common Alexa user requests, broken down by country.

How would you handle scheduling dependencies between two nightly Jobs to ensure the second Job does not fail if the first Job runs longer than expected?

Design a data pipeline that complies with GDPR.

What is a Medallion Architecture?

How would you handle a task in a nightly job that fails unexpectedly during 10 percent of the runs?

Design a system to ingest large amounts of JSON data from multiple S3 buckets

When should you use Delta Live Tables over standard data pipelines built on Spark and Delta Lake?

What is delta lake?

When should you use a job cluster instead of an all-purpose cluster?

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