Create a Distributed File Transfer System like Bittorrent — System Design Interview Practice
Design a peer-to-peer file sharing system for distributing large files efficiently. Work through the requirements, architecture trade-offs, and an interactive design review.
Requirements and concepts to consider
- Peer-to-peer file distributionRequirement
- Split files into chunksRequirement
- Tracker for peer discoveryRequirement
- Support seeding and leechingRequirement
- Verify chunk integrityRequirement
- Optimize download from multiple peersRequirement
- Handle millions of swarmsRequirement
- Resume interrupted downloadsRequirement
- p2pConcept to explore
- file sharingConcept to explore
- distributed systemsConcept to explore
- networkingConcept to explore
- protocolsConcept to explore