Design multi-tenant ingestion and processing platform

Q: Design multi-tenant ingestion and processing platform

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to architect scalable, multi-tenant data ingestion and processing platforms, assessing competencies in tenancy modeling, tenant isolation strategies, SLA-driven design, cost-control and chargeback mechanisms, noisy-neighbor mitigation, and operational reliability.

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System Design Prompt

Design a multi-tenant data ingestion + processing platform used by thousands of internal teams.

Requirements

Multi-tenant: each team has:
- different schemas and data formats,
- different SLAs (latency, freshness, availability),
- different throughput and burst patterns.
Must be cost-controlled (avoid runaway spend; support chargeback/showback).
Must address:
- tenant isolation strategy (hard vs. soft isolation),
- noisy neighbor prevention,
- separation of control plane vs. data plane ,
- guardrails so the org can’t “use the system badly” over time.

Deliverables

Describe the architecture, tenancy model, scaling, reliability, and operational mechanisms.

Design multi-tenant ingestion and processing platform

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Design multi-tenant ingestion and processing platform

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System Design Prompt

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