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Question
Design a global gaming leaderboard that supports top-N queries and 'rank around me' for tens of millions of players, updated in near real-time.
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.
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