Design a real-time mobile analytics pipeline
Source: dagster.ioadvanced

Tests decoupling high-volume ingestion from low-latency querying. Strong designs use an event broker, a stream processor for windowed aggregates, and an OLAP database for sub-second dashboards.
This tests whether you can decouple high-volume ingestion from low-latency querying without creating a single bottleneck. A strong answer outlines four layers: a mobile SDK with batching and backoff; an event broker like Kafka or Kinesis for ingestion; a stream processor like Flink or Spark Streaming for windowed aggregations; and an OLAP sink like ClickHouse or Druid for sub-second dashboard queries.
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