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backend system design
Apple
Google
Amazon
Apple System Design: Distributed Task Scheduler in Cloud
Prepare for an Apple system design interview: design a distributed task scheduler for cloud background jobs. Learn queue, task schema, fault tolerance, and scaling.
Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
backend system design
Bloomberg
Reuters
The New York Times
Bloomberg System Design: Global News Aggregation & Trending
Design a scalable Bloomberg backend to aggregate global news, handle Newser's regional API limits, compute real-time trending, and serve low-latency feeds.
Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
backend system design
eBay
Ticketmaster
StubHub
eBay System Design: Concert Ticketing with Real-Time
Design a scalable concert ticketing backend for eBay: prevent oversells, ensure <100ms reads, integrate social views, and handle peak traffic. Learn the design.
Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
backend system design
Microsoft
Amazon
Google
Microsoft System Design: Distributed Key-Value Store & Cache
Design a distributed key-value store and cache at Microsoft scale. Covers scalability, replication, consistency options, failure handling, and prep tips.
Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
backend system design
NVIDIA
Amazon
Google
NVIDIA System Design Interview: Distributed Rate Limiter
Design a high-throughput distributed rate limiter for NVIDIA's API gateway. Learn algorithms, scaling patterns, and interview tips. Prepare now.
Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
backend system design
Oracle
Meta
Slack
Oracle System Design: Scalable Real-Time Chat System
Prepare for Oracle backend interviews: design a scalable, low-latency real-time chat system. Learn architecture, APIs, message ordering and scaling—practice now.
Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
ml coding
Snapchat
Snap Inc.
Snapchat ML Coding: K-Means + MapReduce Implementation
Prepare for Snapchat ML coding: implement deterministic K-means (centroids & assignments) and adapt it to MapReduce with mapper/reducer scripts. Learn iteration & stop rules.
Machine Learning Engineer, ML EngineerMid Level
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