44. Design a Price Tracking Service
Watch prices on 500 million products with a polite crawler and a million browsers, verify what you are told, and notify subscribers within minutes of a drop.
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Watch prices on 500 million products with a polite crawler and a million browsers, verify what you are told, and notify subscribers within minutes of a drop.
Ten billion pages in five days, politely, without losing progress: fetchers and parsers, domain locks, bandwidth math, deduplication and a crawl that stays fresh. One-hour boards for junior, senior and staff.