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Let's say you have a customer with 100 servers, with each server sending 10k metrics with a timestamp and a value every 10 seconds. We want a system in our datacenter to store the data and to be able to retrieve it for reads. Each metric consists of: a timestamp (unix timestamp 64 bits) , can be second resolution, separate year, a floating point value 64 bits, an identifier string that is 85 bytes. How would you approach and think about this problem? Let’s discuss.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Grafana Labs

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Jan 18, 2022

Let's say you have a customer with 100 servers, with each server sending 10k metrics with a timestamp and a value every 10 seconds. We want a system in our datacenter to store the data and to be able to retrieve it for reads. Each metric consists of: a timestamp (unix timestamp 64 bits) , can be second resolution, separate year, a floating point value 64 bits, an identifier string that is 85 bytes. How would you approach and think about this problem? Let’s discuss.

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