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Building Trusted Data Pipelines Across Sources

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Problem

How to handle complex data scattered across various data sources during data integration?

Asked in the Technical interview stage. 2-person panel.

Treat this as a practical system design exercise. Explain how you would inventory heterogeneous sources, ingest batch and streaming data, reconcile schemas and entities, validate quality, manage lineage and access controls, and publish trusted datasets for ML training and inference. Clarify missing scale, freshness, latency, retention, and compliance requirements before choosing technologies. Discuss failure handling, replayability, monitoring, and how to prevent training-serving skew.