Design a Kafka-Based File Watcher for Millions of Files

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Design a Kafka file watcher for millions of files with source sharding, durable events, per-file ordering, missed-event reconciliation, and version-aware reads.

Design a Kafka-Based File Watcher for Millions of Files

Company: Amazon

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: Design a Kafka file watcher for millions of files with source sharding, durable events, per-file ordering, missed-event reconciliation, and version-aware reads.

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Sep 20, 2026
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