Cost & Latency interview questions

Design to a latency budget and a cost ceiling: caching, payload sizing, model routing, and the trade-offs behind a fast, affordable deployment.

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Support Agent Got Slow and Expensive After LaunchForward Deployedeasy
Agent Is Slow Because It Calls Tools One at a TimeForward Deployedmedium
Integration Drops Out Every Hour (Token Refresh)Forward Deployedmedium
Nightly Enrichment Pipeline Is Burning BudgetForward Deployedmedium
Re-Architect Retrieval to Scale to 2 Million DocumentsForward Deployedhard
Customer Wants a Feature the Platform Can't Do YetForward Deployedhard

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Build RAG Over a Customer's Enterprise LakehouseReported at Databrickshard
Design an Agent for Automated Shipment ReroutingReported at OpenAIhard

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