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Design a News Feed: Data Model and APIs
Schema and API design for the news feed system design interview: feed table, friendship graph, REST vs GraphQL, and cursor pagination vs offset, updated July 2026.
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Design a News Feed: Scaling Bottlenecks
Deep-dive on scaling bottlenecks for the news feed system design interview: the celebrity problem, hot partitions, cache stampede, and cross-region replication, updated July 2026.
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Design a News Feed: System Design Interview Guide
A complete July 2026 walkthrough of the news feed system design interview question, covering fan-out on write vs read, ranking algorithms, real-time updates, and pagination strategy.
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Design a Search Autocomplete: Architecture and Data Flow
A deep dive into the architecture behind search autocomplete systems: the trie service, data collection pipeline, aggregation jobs, and serving layer that make sub-100ms suggestions possible.
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Design a Search Autocomplete: System Design Interview Guide
A complete walkthrough of designing a search autocomplete system for interviews, covering trie data structures, prefix matching, frequency-based ranking, and real-time suggestion delivery.
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Design a Ticketing System: Architecture and Data Flow
A deep dive into ticketing system internals: optimistic locking, distributed locks, event sourcing, CQRS, and queue-based processing, with a full booking-request walkthrough.