Your question is Architectural Trade-offs in Data Pipelines. Take a moment with it on the right.
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Describe how you evaluate architectural trade-offs when designing high-throughput data pipelines.
Focus on the criteria you use to compare competing designs, including throughput, latency, correctness, failure handling, maintainability, testability, and implementation complexity. Explain how you would structure the application code, validate the design, and decide when a simpler approach is preferable to a more optimized one.