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Design a Text-to-SQL system over a warehouse with thousands of tables.

ML System DesignReported interview question
Reported in public interview compilations — Databricks, Palantir

Start with workload, users, data, quality metrics, latency, throughput, freshness, reliability, and cost targets. Choose a simple baseline, then separate offline data/training/evaluation from online serving and feedback collection.

Make interfaces and ownership explicit; add versioning, access control, monitoring, canary rollout, rollback, and a plan for delayed labels or human review.

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