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Intellect Design Arena Interview Question

How would you handle availability and reliability issues in a backend system?

Interview Answer

Anonymous

May 25, 2026

I explained that availability is important for production systems, so we should avoid single points of failure. We can use multiple application replicas, load balancers, health checks, retry mechanisms, and proper database connection handling. I also mentioned monitoring tools and Kubernetes auto-healing features to improve system reliability and uptime.