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backend system design
Anthropic
OpenAI
Cohere
Anthropic System Design: Stateless Prompt Playground
Design a stateless prompt engineering playground backend for Anthropic: handle 10MB+ prompts, multi-window sharing, streaming LLM calls, and cost/security trade-offs.
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
Google
Twitter
LinkedIn
Google System Design: Twitter Hashtag Aggregator Guide
Practice Google's backend system design: real-time Twitter hashtag aggregator. Learn ingestion, aggregation windows, DB trade-offs and interview follow-ups.
Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
backend system design
LinkedIn
Microsoft
Netflix
LinkedIn System Design: Scalable Monitoring (Metrics/Logs)
Design a LinkedIn-scale monitoring system for metrics, logs and traces. Explore architecture, ingestion, storage, querying, alerting, and scaling for interviews.
Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
backend system design
Palantir
Uber
Lyft
Palantir System Design: Taxi Route Recommendation Service
Prepare for Palantir interviews: design a scalable, low-latency taxi route recommendation. Covers architecture, streaming pipelines, and real-time logic.
Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
backend system design
Stripe
Square
Paypal
Stripe System Design: Scalable Real-Time Logs & Metrics
Design a Stripe-style scalable system for real-time logs and metrics ingestion, processing and storage. Learn system flow, trade-offs, and interview follow-ups.
Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
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