Ace the System Design Interview — Job Scheduling System

Ace the System Design Interview: Job Scheduling System

A design for large-scale job schedulers based on my own experience and discussions with other engineers.

1. Introduction

When a limit-sell order or some code is scheduled to run in the future, you need a piece of software like Apache Airflow that runs tasks when certain conditions are met. Because of its wide popularity in the industry, job scheduler has been among the top topics of system design interviews. In this article, …

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