Describe the architecture of a generic A/B testing framework
WHAT IT TESTS: system design with statistical safety. ANSWER OUTLINE: hash-based user bucketing, config service, pre-registered metrics, and confidence intervals on dashboards. RED FLAG: request-level randomization or skipping power analysis.
WHAT IT TESTS: designing a platform that preserves statistical validity from assignment to interpretation. ANSWER OUTLINE: deterministic hashing for stable user bucketing, a runtime config service, pre-registered metrics with upfront power analysis, and dashboards that surface confidence intervals and guardrail health instead of raw p-values. RED FLAG: randomizing per request, ignoring sample ratio mismatch, or exposing binary p-values to non-experts without guardrails.
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