Diagnose why a scaled system became slow
Company: Atlassian
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: This question evaluates proficiency in diagnosing performance regressions in scaled production services, emphasizing observability, bottleneck identification across components (compute, memory, I/O, network, caches, databases), and incident triage skills.
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