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System designHard
Design a power grid monitoring and control system
Companies: OpenAI
Fault Tolerance & Failover · System Design · System Design Fundamentals
Last reported Oct 2026
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System designMedium
Design a Real-Time Trivia Battle Royale Platform with Live Spectating
Companies: OpenAI
Fault Tolerance & Failover · Multiplayer Game Systems · System Design
Last reported Oct 2026
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System designMedium
Design a distributed rate limiter
Algorithm trade-offs (fixed window, sliding log, sliding counter, token bucket), placement, distributed atomic counting, failure modes.
Companies: Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Freshworks +14

api-gateway · atomicity · Concurrency · Consistency & Availability

Last reported Oct 2026

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System designMedium

Design a text-to-video GPU job scheduler with one GPU per task and fair queueing

Companies: OpenAI

Fault Tolerance & Failover · Job Scheduling & Workflows · System Design

Last reported Sep 2026

System designMedium

Design power grid device monitoring over an unreliable public internet

Companies: OpenAI

Fault Tolerance & Failover · Observability · System Design

Last reported Sep 2026

System designHard

Design an Online Multiplayer Chess Service with Real-Time Moves

Companies: OpenAI

Fault Tolerance & Failover · Multiplayer Game Systems · System Design

Last reported Sep 2026

System designHard

Design a Text-to-Video Generation Service: GPU Scheduling, Failures, Traffic Bursts

Companies: OpenAI

Fault Tolerance & Failover · GPU Infrastructure · System Design

Last reported Sep 2026

Practical engineeringMedium

Batch Image Resize and Rotate with Pillow: Exact Dimensions, Parallelism, Bad Files

Companies: Anthropic

Concurrency · Fault Tolerance & Failover

Last reported Sep 2026

System designMedium

Distribute 500 GB of Model Weights to 1,000 GPU Workers: Lower Bound and Design

Companies: Anthropic

Fault Tolerance & Failover · File & Media Storage · System Design

Last reported Sep 2026

System designMedium

Monitor Devices Over an Unreliable Network

Companies: OpenAI

Consistency & Availability · Fault Tolerance & Failover · System Design

Last reported Aug 2026

System designMedium

Design Peer-to-Peer Model Distribution Under a Shared Link Cap

Companies: Anthropic

Fault Tolerance & Failover · File & Media Storage · System Design

Last reported Jul 2026

System designMedium

Design a Real-Time Online Typing Game With Fair Races and Crash Recovery

Companies: OpenAI

Fault Tolerance & Failover · Multiplayer Game Systems · System Design

Last reported Jul 2026

Practical engineeringMedium

Count Machines and Recover a Distributed Tree Topology

Companies: OpenAI

Distributed Transactions & Idempotency · Fault Tolerance & Failover

Last reported Jul 2026

System designMedium

Scale Duplicate File Detection

Companies: Anthropic

Fault Tolerance & Failover · File & Media Storage · System Design

Last reported May 2026

System designMedium

Design a Real-Time Chess Service

Companies: OpenAI

Fault Tolerance & Failover · Multiplayer Game Systems · System Design

Last reported Apr 2026

System designHard

Review and Improve a Flawed Design Document

Companies: Anthropic

Fault Tolerance & Failover · System Design · System Design Fundamentals

Last reported Apr 2026

System designHard

Design guardrails and fallback for LLM reliability

Companies: Anthropic

Fault Tolerance & Failover · LLM Applications · System Design

Last reported Feb 2026

System designHard

Design reliable high-volume chatbot system

Companies: OpenAI

Fault Tolerance & Failover · System Design · System Design Fundamentals

Last reported Dec 2025

System designHard

Design a distributed crossword solving service

Companies: OpenAI

Fault Tolerance & Failover · Job Scheduling & Workflows · System Design

Last reported Oct 2025

System designHard

Design a scalable network I/O service

Companies: Anthropic

Fault Tolerance & Failover · File & Media Storage · System Design

Last reported Sep 2025

ML system designHard

Review an inference API design for scale

Companies: Anthropic

Fault Tolerance & Failover · LLM Inference & Serving · ML System Design

Last reported Sep 2025

System designHard

Design a scalable MapReduce pipeline

Companies: Anthropic

Batch & Stream Processing · Fault Tolerance & Failover · System Design

Last reported Aug 2025

CodingMedium

Implement node messaging and path discovery

Companies: OpenAI

Distributed Coordination · Fault Tolerance & Failover

Last reported Jul 2025