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System designHardsd-p062
Subject Queues streamingLevel Senior~45 minCommon in Distributed systems interviewsIndustries Technology

Question

Design a service that schedules an action at a specific future time ('send this reminder in 7 days', 'expire this hold in 30 minutes') at large scale.

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.

Narrate your design
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Run or narrate your approach, then ask the coach.