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Question
Design the storage and query layer for a social graph (friends/follows) that answers 'friends of friends' and mutual-connection queries for hundreds of millions of users.
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.
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