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Design a system that efficiently distributes 500GB machine learning model files from an external repository to 1000 datacenter servers over a 10Gbps link, optimizing for…
Companies: Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA
Last reported Nov 2026
Design a metrics aggregation system that collects count-based metrics (like user signups, system errors, ad clicks) from services via a client library and displays them…
Companies: Amazon, DoorDash, Google, LinkedIn +10
Last reported Nov 2026
Companies: Rippling
System Design
Last reported Nov 2026
Design a reservation system for Airbnb that allows users to search properties, make bookings, and manage reservations, with focus on API design and payment integration.
Companies: Airbnb, Headway, Opendoor, Ripping +1
Last reported Nov 2026
Contention on scarce inventory: seat holds with TTL, locking/optimistic concurrency, payments, flash-sale traffic and virtual queues.
Companies: Agoda, Airwallex, Amazon, Apple +15
concurrency · idempotency · load-shedding · locking
Last reported Nov 2026
Design a referral system that allows existing users to invite new users through shareable codes or links. The system should handle code generation and sharing…
Companies: Meta, Tiranga Game, Underdog Fantasy
Last reported Nov 2026
URL frontier, politeness, deduplication at scale, distributed workers, failure and trap handling.
Companies: Amazon, Anthropic, Atlassian, Expedia +7
bloom-filters · deduplication · distributed-workers · dns
Last reported Nov 2026
Companies: Meta
System Design
Last reported Nov 2026
Photo delivery and social feeds: safe publication, celebrity fan-out, stable pagination, and high-volume interactions.
Companies: Amazon, Bloomberg, Datadog, DoorDash +9
content-delivery · feed-fanout · idempotency · media-storage
Last reported Nov 2026
Design a distributed web crawler system that can crawl and store Wikipedia pages at scale using multiple machines or edge devices, with focus on coordination…
Companies: Glean, Google, Lyft, Meta
Last reported Nov 2026
Design a distributed lock service that allows clients to acquire and release locks on shared resources, supporting a well-defined API contract and data model that…
Companies: Google
Last reported Oct 2026
Design a livestream chat service that can handle highly variable and spiky loads, such as one-time events with massive viewership, allowing users to send and…
Companies: Anthropic, Cohere, Disney
Last reported Oct 2026
Companies: OpenAI
File & Media Storage · System Design · System Design Fundamentals
Last reported Oct 2026
Companies: Amazon
System Design
Last reported Oct 2026
Design a metrics monitoring platform that collects performance data (CPU, memory, throughput) from hundreds of thousands of servers, allows users to set threshold-based alerts…
Companies: Amazon, Databricks, Digitalocean, Expedia +10
Last reported Oct 2026
Companies: DoorDash, Microsoft, OpenAI
API Design · Caching · System Design · System Design Fundamentals
Last reported Oct 2026
Companies: OpenAI
Messaging & Event-Driven · System Design · System Design Fundamentals
Last reported Oct 2026
Companies: Bnsf
Real-Time Systems · System Design
Last reported Oct 2026
Companies: Instacart
System Design · System Design Fundamentals
Last reported Oct 2026
Companies: Ode
ML System Design · System Design Fundamentals
Last reported Oct 2026
Read-heavy key-value service: unique short-code generation, hot-key caching, redirect semantics.
Companies: Amazon, Anduril, Apple, Bending Spoons +26
API Design · caching · hot-keys · http-redirects
Last reported Oct 2026
Companies: DoorDash
System Design · System Design Fundamentals
Last reported Oct 2026
Companies: eBay
System Design
Last reported Oct 2026
Companies: DoorDash
System Design · System Design Fundamentals
Last reported Oct 2026
Design a food review system where users can rate and review individual food items from their orders, other users can upvote/downvote these reviews, and reviewers…
Companies: DoorDash
Last reported Oct 2026