Your question is Resilient Third-Party API Integration. 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).
Explain how you would integrate a third-party API into our existing stack while maintaining system resilience.
Treat this as a practical ML system design exercise. Clarify the existing service boundary, the API’s role in the ML request path, and the information you need before choosing an architecture. Address request flow, authentication, timeouts, retries, fallback behavior, observability, deployment, and evaluation. Explain how you would prevent third-party failures, schema changes, rate limits, latency variance, and training-serving inconsistencies from affecting users.