Design a Distributed Priority Queue
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A distributed priority queue must efficiently support enqueue (insert with priority) and dequeue (remove highest-priority item) across multiple machines while ensuring ordering correctness, scalability, and fault tolerance. The main challenge is maintaining a near-global priority order without introducing a single coordination bottleneck.
