Designing the Twitter Feed

News feed design: fan out on write versus fan out on read, timeline caching, and ranking. The core social feed interview problem, drawn clearly.

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Lucas Prado

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System design interview prep, one diagram at a time. The classic questions, drawn clearly for study.

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