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File System Design — storing and querying 100 TB of event logs
An end-to-end design exercise: ingesting a billion events a day, partitioning, indexing, retention and query serving at FAANG scale.
The trade-off I'd flag
Retention policy is a design input, not an afterthought. It decides your partition grain, your index strategy and roughly half your storage bill.


