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OAuth 2.0
An authorisation framework that lets an application obtain scoped, delegated access to a resource without handling the user's credentials.
Slowly Changing Dimension
A strategy for handling attributes that change over time, deciding whether history is preserved and how facts attach to the correct version.
Design a URL shortener handling 100 million new links per month and 10 billion redirects. Where is the real difficulty?
What the interviewer is testing The classic warm up. What is being assessed is not whether you can shorten a URL — it is whether you do capacity arithmetic befo
Design the audit logging for a system handling financial transactions. What is logged, where does it go, and what makes it hold up?
What is logged Significant actions only , defined explicitly rather than logging everything — an audit trail nobody can search is not usable evidence: Authentic
Handling Ambiguity
Making progress when the requirements are not yet knowable.
API Error Handling
Error shapes, retryability signals and machine-readable causes.
Handling Disagreement
Arguing from consequences, and escalating in the room.