Design a One-to-One Chat System
Company: Temporal
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, real-time backend architectures for one-to-one messaging, covering competencies in distributed systems, authentication and session management, message delivery semantics, persistence, and operational trade-offs like ordering, fault tolerance, and scalability.
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