System design

Intermediate

Pay only for office hours

An HR platform is busy from 9:00 to 18:00 and almost idle at night, yet runs ten servers around the clock. Cut the bill without hurting the morning rush.

Traffic climbs from 15 % to 100 % between 7:00 and 9:00. New instances need five minutes to warm up.

What your design must achieve

  • Availability ≥ 99.9 %
  • Latency p99 < 200 ms
  • Infrastructure cost per month < 3,600 $

What you will master