In this article we will discuss how to design a hotel reservation system, actually this design solution is applicable to all booking-related interview topics...

Algorithm: Leetcode Contest 381

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Challenge 2

System Design Case Study: Ad Click Aggregation

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One core benefit of online advertising is its measurability.

System Design Case Study: Monitoring System

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Step1: Scope the problem

System Design Case Study: Google Map

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Google maps helps user find directions and navigate to their destination, and it has enormous complexity of google map, it’s important to nail down which fea...

System Design Case Study: Distributed Message Queue

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Message queue provide communication and coordination for those building blocks.

System Design Case Study: Yelp

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Yelp is a typical app of “proximity service”, which is used to discover nearby place such as restaurant, hotels etc.

System Design Case Study: Nearby Friends

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For the opt-in users who grants the permission to access their location, the mobile client present a list of friends who are geographically nearby.

System Design Case Study: Youtube

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Everyone knows youtube, it has a very rich features and impossible to cover all of them in a single article.

System Design Case Study: Google Drive

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Recently years cloud storage has been more and more popular, google drive is one of the most popular among them, let’s use it as example to understand some d...

Algorithm: Leetcode Contest 380

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This time there are two interesting challenges, one is the follow-up of another.

Algorithm Prototype: KMP

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What is KMP

System Design Case Study: TypeAhead System

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Type Ahead system can also be called “auto-complete” or “incremental search”system etc.

System Design Case Study: Chat System

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Step1: Scope the problem

Algorithm: Leetcode Contest 379

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Challenges

System Design Case Study: News Feed System

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What is News Feed?

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System Design Case Study: Notification System

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A notification system can alert user with important information like breaking news offers.

System Design Case Study: Web Crawler

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Step1 : Understanding the problem

System Design Building Block: K-V Store

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What is a K-V store?

Algorithm Prototype: Monotone Stack

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what is monotone stack?

Algorithm Prototype: Sliding Window

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What is Sliding Window?

Algorithm: Leetcode Contest 372

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2952. Minimum Number of Coins to be Added You are given a 0-indexed integer array coins, representing the values of the coins available, and an integer targe...

System Design: Blob Store

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What is Blob Store?

System Design: Rate Limiter

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What is Rate Limiter?

System Design: Distributed Logging

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Why we need logging?

System Design: Distributed Search System

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What we need search system?

System Design: Distributed Task Scheduler

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What is a task scheduler?

System Design: Building Blocks - Sequencer

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Motivation

System Design: Building Blocks - Pub-Sub

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What is pub-sub system?

System Design: Building Blocks - Load Balancer

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What is Load Balancing

System Design: Building Blocks - Distributed MQ

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## Problem

System Design: Building Blocks - Database

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I would say, Database is the most important component in a system, when you design a system, and you don’t consider a lot regarding the database, then the de...

System Design: Building Blocks - Cache

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Problem

System Design: Building Blocks - CDN

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Problem

System Design: General Understanding

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System Design is a process of defining components and their integrations, to build a large-scale system that meets the specific set of functional and non-fun...