Code RoomReal-time location sharing
MediumPrep Room Coding #3269

Real-time location sharing

System designDistributed systemsMid–Senior~40 min

Design a real-time location-sharing feature (friends/family see each other's live location on a map) for 100M users in groups/circles, where a viewer should see a member's marker move within a few seconds of the member moving. Cover how updates fan out to viewers, how you handle the social graph, and privacy/permission controls.

What a strong answer looks like

Clarify scale and constraints first. Propose a clean component breakdown, then go deep on the hard parts (data model, bottlenecks, consistency, failure modes) and name the trade-offs you are making.

Clarify4:30 left
Estimate4:30 planned
Design13:30 planned
Deep dive10:30 planned
Failure7:00 planned
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