Code RoomOrdered fan-out at scale
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Ordered fan-out at scale

System designDistributed systemsSenior–Staff~50 min

Design ordered fan-out to millions of subscribers with per-key ordering. A single source emits updates keyed by entity (e.g. document edits, account-balance events); each update must reach every subscriber of that key, and every subscriber must observe updates for a given key in the exact order they were produced — even though one key may have 5M subscribers and updates arrive at 100K/sec. A few hot keys dominate traffic.

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.

Clarify5:30 left
Estimate5:30 planned
Design16:30 planned
Deep dive13:30 planned
Failure9:00 planned
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