Your question is Ingestion Pipeline Traffic Spike. Take a moment with it on the right.
Talk me through your thinking if you like. When you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen (7/10 or better passes).
How would you handle a sudden 10x spike in traffic to an ingestion pipeline?
Explain how you would detect the spike, protect downstream systems, preserve data durability and ordering where required, and scale capacity safely. Cover capacity estimation, backpressure, autoscaling, replay behavior, observability, and any ML-based anomaly detection or forecasting you would use.
