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Design a Meal Order Processing Ranker

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Scenario

You are designing the real-time system behind meal order processing for a food delivery platform. Orders arrive continuously from customers, kitchens, and delivery partners, and the system must decide how to route and prioritize them as traffic changes.

Question

How would you design a system to process meal orders in real time, including handling spikes in traffic and ensuring reliability?