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• Describe an application hosted in a public cloud that you’ve been responsible for configuring, maintaining, designing, or deploying. What were some challenges that arose and what tools or processes did you apply to solve them?

• Please describe one of the applications of automation that you’re most proud of or excited about that solved a need around a cloud/infrastructure issue or requirement.

• As an example of a project we recently completed, how would you design the infrastructure for a web service that:

  1. Receives thousands of requests per second
  2. Should be protected against regional/geographical outages
  3. Allows for A/B testing of different backends
  4. Returns highly dynamic data
  5. Needs to perform some asynchronous tasks interacting with external resources (data imports)
  6. Needs fairly static data from external db(s) to process each request

• Given the above design, how would you configure the following. Answers can be as detailed as you'd like, or conceptual in nature:

  1. Deployments of the web service (and potential a/b tests)
  2. Deployments/Changes to the core infrastructure

• Please diagram the infrastructure stack you'd choose for an environment with the following needs:

  1. api gateway
  2. authentication layer/gateway
  3. some high-throughput services that return fairly static data
  4. services that require authentication, and could vary in load substantially