Design a CI/CD system with live log streaming

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This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable CI/CD architectures including shell-script job orchestration, DAG-aware scheduling, run history and log persistence, near-real-time log ingestion/streaming, and operational concerns such as retries, idempotency, resource constraints and secrets/isolation.

Design a CI/CD system with live log streaming

Company: OpenAI

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: hard

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable CI/CD architectures including shell-script job orchestration, DAG-aware scheduling, run history and log persistence, near-real-time log ingestion/streaming, and operational concerns such as retries, idempotency, resource constraints and secrets/isolation.

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