Shutterstock Mock Interview

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The next cloud engineer that we hire here at Shutterstock needs to be able build a system that can handle a high amount of traffic. How would you test our system's ability to handle large amounts of traffic?

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Ryan Brunner
Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

This question allows your interviewer to gain insight into your thought process and ability surrounding building a cloud network that has an architecture that can handle large amounts of traffic without failure. Some key points to focus on your answer are your ability to match capacity to system demand and use horizontal scaling in the design of the system.

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