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8. Design a Video Streaming Platform
Turn uploads into playable renditions and serve viewers through unreliable networks.
ClassicHard
Queues Object storage Adaptive bitrate
+6
AWS Capacity planning CDNs Multipart upload Transcoding Video streaming
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54. Design a Photo Sharing App like Instagram
Photos and videos for 500 million daily users: presigned multipart uploads, a processing pipeline, CloudFront and a hybrid fan-out feed.
ClassicMedium
Caching Databases Object storage
+7
AWS CDNs Fan out Instagram Media upload Redis Amazon S3
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66. Design for Read Scale: A Product Page Read a Million Times a Second
Serve a product page a million times a second: a cheap query, replicas, Redis and the edge, with hot keys, stampedes and invalidation handled.
ClassicMedium
Caching Databases Aurora
+4
AWS CDNs Read replicas Redis
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94. Design a Driver Heatmap
Count 4 million moving drivers per map cell from a million pings a second, and serve the density to a million viewers as cached map tiles.
ClassicMedium
Streaming Distributed systems AWS
+5
CDNs Flink Geospatial H3 Kafka
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