Interview question. You are designing an inventory and coupon platform deployed in two regions. Both regions should keep accepting eligible operations during a network partition. Explain how to determine which operations can run independently, where coordination is unavoidable, and how ownership or escrow rights can reduce coordination without breaking correctness.
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