Companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. offer various services such as drive, photos, mail, and documents.
Typically, they provide users with a single shared quota. For example, if you purchase a 100GB storage plan,
all these services will consume capacity from the same quota bucket.
Under the hood, such systems usually look like this:
+--------------------------+
| QUOTA SERVICE |
+--------------------------+
/ | \
/ | \
S1 Storage S2 Storage ...
Applications and services consume from the shared quota through this centralized service.
Your task:
Design a quota service that supports multiple independent services (S1, S2, …),
all sharing the same quota limit, ensuring consistency, concurrency safety, and accuracy.

这是一道典型的 统一存储配额(Quota)系统设计题 ,类似 Google Drive、iCloud、OneDrive 的后端模式。多个服务(例如相册、文档、邮箱等)共享同一个配额,系统需要做到
- ✅ 跨服务的总配额一致性
- ✅ 并发写入不重复计数、不卡死
- ✅ 对每个服务的独立计数
- ✅ 面向客户端的查询与写入 API
- ✅ 高并发、高扩展
这道题考察的是你对分布式计数器、事务、锁机制、配额检查流程以及系统扩展性的理解,是高频的系统设计面试题。
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