Load Balancing & Scaling System Design Questions

Design a URL shortener like TinyURL or Bitly.

CachingDatabase Scaling

Design a distributed rate limiter for a company's public APIs.

CachingConsistency & Trade-offs

Design a Pastebin-style text snippet sharing service.

CachingDatabase Scaling

Design a multi-channel notification system (push, email, SMS).

Queues & Async Processing

Design the video playback and delivery system for a streaming service like Netflix or YouTube.

CachingDatabase Scaling

Design a distributed in-memory cache like Redis or Memcached.

CachingConsistency & Trade-offs

Design a distributed message queue like Kafka or SQS.

Consistency & Trade-offsQueues & Async Processing

Design the ride-hailing dispatch and matching system for a service like Uber or Lyft.

Consistency & Trade-offsQueues & Async Processing

Design a maps routing and ETA service like Google Maps.

CachingDatabase Scaling

Design a search autocomplete (typeahead) service.

CachingDatabase Scaling

Design a live video broadcasting platform like Twitch or YouTube Live.

Caching

Design a service discovery system like Consul, Eureka, or Kubernetes DNS.

CachingConsistency & Trade-offs

Design an API gateway like Kong or AWS API Gateway.

CachingConsistency & Trade-offs

Design a durable, replicated key-value store like DynamoDB or Cassandra.

Consistency & Trade-offsDatabase Scaling

Design the multi-region active-active architecture for a global app like Shopify.

Consistency & Trade-offsDatabase Scaling