Design a Global Small-Image Caching Service
Company: Waymo
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: Design a globally distributed cache for small images backed by one authoritative database and hundreds of thousands of reads per second. Cover cache hierarchy, versioning, bounded staleness, invalidation, burst protection, regional failures, and origin-outage behavior.
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