Make the tough calls. Trade-offs, System Design choices, and Scalability scenarios.

You are the CTO. Decide between SQL vs NoSQL, Monolith vs Microservices, REST vs GraphQL, and choose the right tools for high-scale, low-latency, or data-intensive problems.

Scenario: Building a global social media feed with high read volume. SQL or NoSQL?

Scenario: Financial banking ledger requiring strict ACID compliance?

Scenario: Video streaming service assets?

Scenario: Search functionality for e-commerce catalog?

Scenario: High-frequency trading platform?

Scenario: Heavy compute job (Video processing)?

Scenario: Analytics dashboard with complex aggregations?

Scenario: Microservices communicating sync vs async?

Scenario: Storing relationships (Friends of Friends)?

Scenario: Distributed Transaction across services?

Scenario: Global user base, slow latency?

Scenario: IoT Sensor data (Millions/sec)?

Scenario: Client needs specific data shape?

Scenario: Service A is down, Service B depends on it?

Scenario: Unique ID generation in distributed system?

Scenario: Managing multiple microservice configs?

Scenario: Need schema flexibility (Documents)?

Scenario: High availability over Consistency?

Scenario: Long running process user feedback?

Scenario: Analyzing logs across 100 servers?

Scenario: Bottleneck is Database Disk I/O?

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