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FreshPulse Dynamic Pricing

Design a dynamic pricing engine for a regional grocery delivery app. Prices for 100,000 items must be updated every 5 minutes based on local demand, remaining inventory, and competitor prices. The system serves 1 million active users. How do you ensure users always see the latest price at checkout without crashing the database under heavy read load?

Key concepts

event-driven architecturedistributed cachestream processing

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