Design a Distributed Key-Value Store
Company: Microsoft
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: This system design question evaluates the ability to architect a horizontally scalable distributed key-value store, covering data partitioning, replication, and failure handling. It tests conceptual understanding of consistent hashing, quorum-based consistency, and rebalancing, skills commonly probed in system design interviews to assess architectural reasoning about scalability and fault tolerance.
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