Design a low-latency Caching System

Last updated: March 27, 2026

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Design a low-latency caching system handling millions of requests. Discuss consistency, availability, and performance trade-offs.

Walmart
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Software Engineer
Walmart
March 27, 2026
Software Engineer
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Design a low-latency caching system handling millions of requests. Discuss consistency, availability, and performance trade-offs.

How to Approach This
  1. Start by clarifying functional and non-functional requirements with the interviewer.
  2. Estimate the scale: QPS, storage, bandwidth. This drives your design decisions.
  3. Draw a high-level architecture first, then deep dive into 1-2 critical components.
  4. Discuss trade-offs explicitly (e.g., consistency vs availability, SQL vs NoSQL).
  5. Address failure scenarios, monitoring, and how the system handles 10x traffic spikes.
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