Interview prompt
Problem context
An enterprise collaboration product must serve writes locally in North America, Europe, and Asia, survive a regional outage, and keep regulated European tenant data in Europe. Some entities are independently editable; others enforce global uniqueness or monetary limits. Propose a multi-region model and its failure semantics.
Skills being evaluated
consistency modelingconflict resolutionregional architectureinvariant analysis
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