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Try a system design drill

One focused, interview-style prompt. Write a short answer and an AI interviewer grades it in seconds.

The prompt

A notification worker pulls jobs from one queue with a single consumer, and the backlog grows during spikes. Identify the bottleneck and fix it.

Spiky loadOrdering matters for some events
Your answerFill in each line — schema, bullets, or prose.
Bottleneck ◯·Fix ◯·Trade-off ◯
No diagram needed for a drill — that's what the full interview is for.