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System designHard
Question
Design a coupon/promo-code system: validate codes at checkout, enforce per-user and global usage limits, and resist abuse.
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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