Social Media News Feed — System Design Interview Practice
Design a news feed system like Facebook or Twitter that can handle billions of posts and personalized feeds. Work through the requirements, architecture trade-offs, and an interactive design review.
Requirements and concepts to consider
- Users can post updates (text, images, videos)Requirement
- Users can follow other usersRequirement
- Generate personalized news feedRequirement
- Support likes, comments, and sharesRequirement
- Handle 1B daily active usersRequirement
- Real-time feed updatesRequirement
- Trending topics and hashtagsRequirement
- social mediaConcept to explore
- feedsConcept to explore
- scalabilityConcept to explore
- personalizationConcept to explore
- mediaConcept to explore