Operational Scalability and Load Management Questions

Focus on how design decisions affect system scalability, operational load, and long term maintainability. Candidates should articulate considerations such as real time versus batch updates, polling frequency, caching and throttling, and the impact of those choices on backend cost, latency, and reliability. Discuss design strategies that reduce support burden such as simpler workflows, clearer error states, automation of repetitive tasks, and progressive disclosure to limit edge case complexity. Describe approaches for graceful degradation, feature gating and progressive rollouts, monitoring and telemetry to measure operational impact, and how to collaborate with engineering and operations to quantify and mitigate load risks.