Outline a crisp HLD structure you’d present in a 45-minute interview.

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Start with goals, scale, SLOs, and constraints. Define APIs, data model, and consistency needs. Sketch read/write flows with sequence diagrams and rough capacity estimates. Then address caching layers, storage choice, partitioning, replication, and failure handling. Close with trade-offs, cost, observability, and a phased rollout.

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Outline a crisp HLD structure you’d present in a 45-minute interview.

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Explanation

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