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System Design: Designing a Collaborative Editor (Google Docs)

System Design: Designing a Collaborative Editor (Google Docs) Designing a collaborative editor like Google Docs or Notion is one of the most technically challenging system design problems. It requires synchronizing the s…

Apr 20, 20263 min read

Case Study

#system-design#google-docs#collaborative-editing

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System Design: Designing Nearby Friends (Real-time Geospatial Streams)

System Design: Designing Nearby Friends (Real-time Geospatial) Designing a "Nearby Friends" feature (like Snapchat's Snap Map or Facebook's Nearby Friends) is a unique challenge. Unlike Yelp or Uber, where the entities (…

Apr 20, 20263 min read

Deep Dive

#system-design#geospatial#real-time

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System Design: Designing an Online Auction System (eBay Scale)

System Design: Designing an Online Auction System Designing a high-scale auction system like eBay or a penny auction site is a classic concurrency challenge. The system must handle thousands of users bidding on the same…

Apr 20, 20263 min read

Deep Dive

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System Design: Designing WhatsApp (Real-time Messaging)

System Design: Designing WhatsApp (Real-time Messaging) Building a chat application like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger requires managing millions of persistent connections and ensuring that messages are delivered reliab…

Apr 20, 20263 min read

Deep Dive

#system-design#whatsapp#real-time-chat

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WebSocket Fleet Management: Handling Millions of Connections

WebSocket Fleet Management WebSocket systems look easy in local testing and become complex in production when you handle millions of long-lived connections across regions, devices, and flaky mobile networks. The challeng…

Apr 20, 20264 min read

Deep Dive

#websockets#real-time#distributed-systems