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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
ml system design
Google
YouTube
TikTok

Google ML System Design: Fuzzy Video Deduplication

Design a real-time fuzzy video deduplication system using embedding models and ANN search. Learn tradeoffs, scalability, and appeal workflows—prepare for interviews.

Machine Learning Engineer, ML 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
object oriented design
Home Depot
Lowe's
Ace Hardware

Home Depot Object-Oriented Design: Tool Rental System

Prepare for Home Depot OOD interviews: design a scalable Tool Rental System handling inventory, deposits, overtime fees, payments and receipts. See tips.

Software Engineer, Backend EngineerEntry Level
infrastructure foundation
LinkedIn
Google
Amazon

LinkedIn Infrastructure Interview: Caching Strategies

Prepare for LinkedIn infra interviews: compare write-through vs write-back caching, evaluate consistency vs performance trade-offs, and review common follow-ups.

Software Engineer, Backend EngineerEntry Level
ml system design
LinkedIn
Google
Yelp

LinkedIn ML System Design: Real-Time Nearby Recommendations

Build a low-latency, scalable ML system to recommend nearby places in real time. Get architecture, dataflow, personalization tips, and interview follow-ups.

Machine Learning Engineer, Data ScientistMid 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
Lyft
Uber
Google

Lyft System Design: Distributed Wiki Archiving Bots

Practice a Lyft backend system design: build a distributed Wikipedia archiving system with 1000 bots. Learn architecture, coordination, storage, and scaling.

Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
backend system design
Tesla
Google
Amazon

Memory Pool System Design: High-Performance Tesla Interview

Design a performance memory pool for Tesla interviews: lock-free or low-lock alloc/free, fragmentation control, O(1) ops, malloc fallback, and metrics.

Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
ml system design
Meta
Facebook

Meta ML System Design: Real-Time Personalized Feed Ranking

Build a real-time personalized ranking system for Meta's news feed. Learn low-latency serving, online updates, cold-start handling, diversity, and A/B testing.

Machine Learning Engineer, ML EngineerMid Level
backend system design
Meta
Facebook
Instagram

Meta System Design: Real-Time Ad Auction Platform

Design a low-latency, scalable real-time ad auction platform for Meta. Learn auction flow, RTB, relevance scoring, and latency tactics—prepare for interviews.

Software Engineer, Backend EngineerMid Level
ml system design
Microsoft
Google
Meta

Microsoft ML System Design: Local Sports Team Recommender

Scalable recommender for local sports teams: data ingestion, candidate generation, ranking, real-time updates, and metrics. Prep for ML design interviews.

Software Engineer, ML EngineerMid Level

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