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Design a Real-time Gaming Leaderboard

Overview

Design a high-frequency real-time leaderboard service for a massive multiplayer online game showing global top 100 players, user relative rank, and nearby competitors.

Requirements

1Real-time score updates with immediate rank calculation for 10M+ active users
2Sub-20ms latency to query Top 100 leaderboard and surrounding rank neighbours (+/- 5 ranks of user)
3Handle 50,000 score submissions per second during tournament hours
4Support periodic leaderboard resets (daily, weekly, seasonal) with historical archives
5High availability and resilience against node restarts

Architecture Hints (4)

Target Concepts

#Redis Sorted Sets#ZSET#Gaming#Leaderboard#Sharding

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