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Additional system design interview questions
Common system design interview questions, with links to resources on how to solve each.
| Question | Reference(s) |
|---|---|
| Design a file sync service like Dropbox | youtube.com |
| Design a search engine like Google | queue.acm.org stackexchange.com ardendertat.com stanford.edu |
| Design a scalable web crawler like Google | quora.com |
| Design Google docs | code.google.com neil.fraser.name |
| Design a key-value store like Redis | codecapsule.com allthingsdistributed.com |
| Design a cache system like Memcached | slideshare.net |
| Design a recommendation system like Amazon's | hulu.com ijcai13.org |
| Design a tinyurl system like Bitly | n00tc0d3r.blogspot.com |
| Design a chat app like WhatsApp | highscalability.com |
| Design a picture sharing system like Instagram | highscalability.com highscalability.com |
| Design the Facebook news feed function | quora.com quora.com slideshare.net |
| Design the Facebook timeline function | facebook.com highscalability.com |
| Design the Facebook chat function | erlang-factory.com facebook.com |
| Design a graph search function like Facebook's | facebook.com facebook.com facebook.com |
| Design a content delivery network like CloudFlare | figshare.com |
| Design a trending topic system like Twitter's | michael-noll.com snikolov .wordpress.com |
| Design a random ID generation system | blog.twitter.com github.com |
| Return the top k requests during a time interval | cs.ucsb.edu wpi.edu |
| Design a system that serves data from multiple data centers | highscalability.com |
| Design an online multiplayer card game | indieflashblog.com buildnewgames.com |
| Design a garbage collection system | stuffwithstuff.com washington.edu |
| Design an API rate limiter | https://stripe.com/blog/ |
| Design a Stock Exchange (like NASDAQ or Binance) | Jane Street Golang Implementation Go Implementation |
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