Code RoomGeofencing service
HardPrep Room Coding #3260

Geofencing service

System designDistributed systemsSenior–Staff~45 min

Design a geofencing service that evaluates 2M device location updates per second against 10M active geofences (arbitrary polygons, some overlapping) and emits enter/exit/dwell events with under 1s latency. Geofences are created/deleted dynamically by tenants. Walk through the spatial index, the enter/exit state machine, and how you keep per-device fence membership consistent.

What a strong answer looks like

Clarify scale and constraints first. Propose a clean component breakdown, then go deep on the hard parts (data model, bottlenecks, consistency, failure modes) and name the trade-offs you are making.

Clarify5:00 left
Estimate5:00 planned
Design15:00 planned
Deep dive12:00 planned
Failure8:00 planned
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