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Real-Time Ad-Campaign Budget Pacing

Design a budget pacing system for an ad network. Advertisers set a daily budget (e.g., $100/day). The system must track spend in real-time across thousands of bidding servers and stop showing ads as soon as the budget is exhausted to prevent significant overspending (overburn).

Key concepts

stream processingdistributed countersprecision vs speed

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