Design a Perishable-Goods Inventory and Location Tracking System
Company: Amazon
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: This system design question evaluates the ability to architect a location-tracking and inventory service for perishable goods across a distributed retail network. It tests knowledge of data modeling, scalable read/write paths, and trade-offs between storage technologies for high-throughput state-change streams.
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