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Design a Distributed Rate Limiter & Abuse Prevention Gateway (Cloudflare / Stripe)
Architect an ultra-low latency distributed rate limiter deployed across global edge points of presence (PoPs) to throttle DDoS attacks and enforce per-API-key quotas.
Design a Distributed Payment Gateway & Immutable Double-Entry Ledger (Stripe / Adyen)
Architect a mission-critical payment processing platform featuring idempotent charge capture, distributed Saga transactions, immutable double-entry ledger bookkeeping, and PCI-DSS tokenization vaults.
Design a Real-Time Social Newsfeed & Timeline Architecture (Twitter / X)
Design a high-scale social media timeline architecture solving the celebrity fan-out problem using a hybrid push/pull model, Redis Sorted Sets, and Snowflake ID sequencing.
Design a High-Concurrency Ticket Reservation & Flash Sale System (Ticketmaster / Queue-IT)
Architect an extreme-concurrency ticket reservation engine featuring virtual waiting rooms, distributed seat locking with TTL, optimistic inventory concurrency, and fraud-resistant bot protection.
Design Google Docs Collaborative Editor (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Google Docs Collaborative Editor. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Spotify Audio Streaming & Recommendation (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Spotify Audio Streaming & Recommendation. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Distributed Web Crawler (Google Search) (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Distributed Web Crawler (Google Search). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Amazon E-Commerce Cart & Checkout (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Amazon E-Commerce Cart & Checkout. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Distributed Key-Value Store (DynamoDB / Redis) (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Distributed Key-Value Store (DynamoDB / Redis). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Metric Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus / Datadog) (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Metric Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus / Datadog). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Ride-Sharing Driver Dispatch (Uber / Lyft) (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Ride-Sharing Driver Dispatch (Uber / Lyft). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Video Transcoding & Streaming (YouTube / Netflix) (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Video Transcoding & Streaming (YouTube / Netflix). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Real-Time Messaging Gateway (WhatsApp / Discord) (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Real-Time Messaging Gateway (WhatsApp / Discord). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Global URL Shortener & Analytics (Bitly) (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Global URL Shortener & Analytics (Bitly). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Vector Database for LLM & RAG Retrieval (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Vector Database for LLM & RAG Retrieval. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design IoT Fleet Telemetry Ingestion Pipeline (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for IoT Fleet Telemetry Ingestion Pipeline. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Live Auction & Bidding Engine (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Live Auction & Bidding Engine. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
Design Fraud Detection & Risk Scoring Engine (2026)
Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Fraud Detection & Risk Scoring Engine. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.
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