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11. Design a Container Orchestrator
Reconcile desired workloads, schedule containers and recover from failed nodes safely.
ClassicHard
Distributed systems AWS Control plane
+6
etcd Isolation Kubernetes Orchestration Reconciliation Scheduling
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34. Delay Queue Scheduler
Millions of future actions — reminders, retries, expiries — must fire near their due time. Scanning everything every minute does not scale, and an in-process timer dies with the process.
Infrastructure & SREMedium
Queues Reminders Scheduling
+1
Amazon SQS
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45. Design a Job Scheduler
Run 10,000 jobs a second within two seconds of their time, at least once, with retries, fairness between tenants and exactly-once effects.
ClassicMedium
Queues Databases AWS
+5
Cron DynamoDB Idempotency Scheduling Amazon SQS
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102. Design a GPU Cluster Scheduler for Training Jobs
Thousands of GPUs shared by many teams: gang admission, topology-aware placement, quotas with lending, checkpointed preemption and failure recovery.
ClassicMedium
AI infrastructure AWS GPUs
+2
Kubernetes Scheduling
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