Interview questions
Consistency & distributed transactionsMediumSDE-2

In a flash sale, 1,000 phones are on offer and 2 lakh users click 'Buy' in the first minute. How do you make sure you never sell more than 1,000?

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Answer out loud as you would in the room — clarify, give numbers, name the trade-off — then compare with the model answer.

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