Design config distribution to fifty thousand VMs: versioned bundles, staged rollouts, and rollback that actually works.

Drawing an agent that polls a server is the easy third. The interview is about partial applies, fleet-versus-world state, and why rollback must be a pointer flip, never a reverse edit.

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Drawing an agent that polls a server is the easy third. The interview is about partial applies, fleet-versus-world state, and why rollback must be a pointer flip, never a reverse edit.

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