Cracking the Databricks System Design Interview: The 2TB Challenge

The architectural thinking pattern that turns a basic pipeline answer into a staff-level response - with real numbers and governance included

You’re in a data engineering interview. The interviewer leans back and says, “We’re an e-commerce platform ingesting 2 terabytes of clickstream data daily from our app, and we need to serve near real-time analytics to 500 concurrent users. How would you design a scalable data platform on Databricks?”