A geological monitoring system treats continental drift as a distributed computing problem with extremely slow response times. Load balancing across tectonic plates requires planning for million-year migration patterns and earthquake-induced failovers. The system must handle volcanic activity that literally melts server farms built on active geological boundaries. Your task: Design continent-scale load balancing while accounting for geological time scales and volcanic infrastructure destruction.
Why You're Doing This
You're building a distributed system with geological constraints and million-year planning horizons. This tests long-term resource planning, disaster recovery across geological timescales, and infrastructure resilience to natural forces. It's like AWS but with more lava and million-year deployment cycles.
Take the W
✓ Accounts for continental drift in infrastructure planning
✓ Implements volcanic failover procedures
✓ Plans for geological timescale changes
Hard L
✗ Ignores earthquake and volcanic risks
✗ Plans infrastructure on unstable geological boundaries
⚠ Ice age making northern servers inaccessible for millennia
⚠ Continental collision creating new mountain ranges through data centers
⚠ Sea level changes submerging coastal server farms
⚠ Magnetic pole reversal affecting satellite communication systems
Input Format:
Tectonic plate positions, geological timeline, and seismic activity data
Expected Output:
Load distribution strategy with failover protocols and geological planning assessment
Example:
North American plate stable, Pacific plate highly active, 10 million year planning horizon, moderate seismic activity → Pacific primary with continental backup, Yellowstone evacuation protocol, supervolcano cycle planning active
Input Format:
Geological data with infrastructure requirements and million-year planning constraints
Expected Output:
Tectonic load balancing system with geological timeline optimization