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System designHardsd-p096
Subject RealtimeLevel Senior~45 minCommon in Distributed systems interviewsIndustries Technology, Software development

Question

Design the real-time order-tracking system for a food-delivery app: customers see live order status and the courier's location from placement to delivery.

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.