Data engineer survey

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1. Download and try the app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/artworkout-learn-how-to-draw/id1564657118 OR watch the videos on TikTok/YouTube Shorts (links in the header of google form). Describe the core technical idea of the app in one sentence. Meaning, what's the core software feature of the app?
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2. Describe the data model of the app in general. *

3. Describe the data model of a lesson.
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4. Developing ArtWorkout we're heavily inspired by many other apps that use gamification in education, including Duolingo.
So let's imagine that you develop Duolingo:
User path made of lessons.
Crystals, hearts, freezes, skins, experience for the game economy.
Friends, leagues and leaderboards.
Streaks.
Badges.
Timely push notifications.
Timely popups with chests, paywalls, ads, special offers, one-time events, personal lessons, achievements.
Duolingo analyzes every action user takes, every event leads to near-realtime feedback. And the personal journey of each user gives him his personal experience: the app reacts to his actions, sometimes immediately, sometimes delayed by time.

To account for the long personal history, to unload the client, to restrict cheating and to have the flexibility we decided to implement a big part of this logic on the server side. What would be the architecture of this system? What components does it have? What is the way of communicating between these components? What open source components (for example, databases) would you use implementing that? *

5. How would you implement the near-immediate reaction to user events? *

6. Clickhouse. Explain the overall architecture of the event analytics system and the analytics DB itself. *

7. What would be the data flow and overall architecture of AB testing for this app? *

8. How would you host all of these components considering the uptime and stability requirements are pretty low (99.7 is enough) and the goal is to save on the infrastructure? (under $500 for 100M incoming events per month) *

9. How would you change the deployment approach if the requirements are higher?

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