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How would you approach designing a distributed scheduler that ensures jobs run exactly once?

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  • Outline the components of a job scheduling system that supports both time-based and event-driven triggers.
  • How would you approach designing a distributed scheduler that ensures jobs run exactly once?
  • Propose a high-level design for a job scheduler that can handle millions of recurring tasks across multiple time zones.
  • Develop a scalable cron job scheduling system for distributed environments.
  • Create a cron job scheduler for distributed systems.
  • Develop a distributed system for scheduling and running cron jobs.
  • Build a job scheduler for handling cron jobs in a distributed manner.
  • Design a scheduler for distributed cron jobs.
  • Design a system for managing a distributed cron job scheduler.
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