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Design a social network website with the following functional requirements

1. Users should be able to post content with text, images or video 2. Users should be able to follow other users 3. Each user will have a relatively low latency feed which shows content posted by users they follow

Posted by Jamie Meyer 7 months ago

Related Problems

Sending user notifications is a common requirement in system design. Design a notification service for an organization. The system will use shared services for the underlying messaging implementation (email, sms, push notifications, etc) so the actual messaging implementation does not need to be designed. The system should support a user publishing a notification to a single user or groups of users. Notifications can be triggered manually via a web UI or programmatically via an API. Users should be able to view their past notifications they published. If a user is unable to receive a notification, they should still receive it at the next opportunity and not miss the message. The notification service should scale to billions of notifications per day, with messages delivered within a few seconds, with five 9s uptime.

Functional Requirements

1. As users type text in a search box, show the top 10 auto complete results with very low latency

2. Analytics will be collected on what the user types

Functional Requirements

The ability to set limits on the number of requests allowed within a specific timeframe

Keep performance and fault tolerance in mind

Functional Requirements

Users should be able to query plaintext documents (the twitter posts for this example)

Keep reliability and latency in mind