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Real-Time Ingestion System Design

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Design a scalable system to handle real-time data ingestion and processing.

Clarify the workload, freshness and latency requirements, data quality expectations, and downstream processing or ML use cases. Explain how the system scales, handles failures and reprocessing, and is evaluated and monitored in production.