The Clock That Runs Two Ways | Pipeline Design Practice

A hard Pipeline Design interview practice problem on DataDriven. Write and execute real pipeline design code with instant grading.

Domain: Pipeline Design
Difficulty: hard
Seniority: L5

Problem

Your team maintains two separate pipelines feeding the same data lake: a nightly extract from an on-premises transactional database, and a real-time event stream from a microservices layer. Leadership wants a unified orchestration layer with a single SLA dashboard and consistent failure alerting. Design the architecture.

Summary

Nightly batch and live events. One dashboard.

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