System Design: The interviewer asked how I would handle a large-scale influx of traffic on a website. The interviewer expected me to discuss Load balancing, Vertical and Horizontal Scaling, Caching, Databases, and Backup servers. If a website’s servers are remotely located and experience high loading times due to a massive number of hits, how would I resolve this scenario and reduce buffering time? Probable solutions discussed included CDN, Caching, and proxy servers. The interviewer displayed the screen and inquired about the Linux ‘top’ and ‘free’ commands, including the attributes they showed. In the end, only one student successfully cleared this round