Collaborative cursor presence
Design the live multiplayer-cursor and selection-presence layer for a collaborative design canvas (think the moving colored cursors + 'who's selecting what' in a shared document). A room can have up to 200 simultaneous collaborators; each moves their cursor continuously (potentially 60 updates/sec) and selects objects. Everyone should see others' cursors moving smoothly in near-real-time, but this ephemeral data must not overwhelm the network or the document's persistent storage. How do you broadcast high-frequency ephemeral presence within a room cheaply?
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.