Design a Centralized Logging System
Company: Apple
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design a large-scale, distributed logging system covering ingestion, storage, indexing, and query serving. It tests system design fundamentals such as decoupling producers from consumers, partitioning and tiered storage, and reliability trade-offs under high write throughput. This type of prompt is common in system design interviews to assess practical, application-level architectural reasoning rather than purely conceptual knowledge.