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System designScale and caching

Graph database sharding

Hard3 min read

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Horizontally sharded databaseHard45 min Social graph shardingHard45 min

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Scale and caching Data modeling and storage Search and feeds Reliability and failover Real-time systems Consistency and money Messaging and streams

Builds on: Data modeling and storage

Designing a parking lot4 min Designing a pastebin3 min

Leads to: Search and feeds

Polling a feed for new items4 min Social feed (fan-out design)4 min

Leads to: Reliability and failover

Observability systems3 min Anomaly detection3 min

Leads to: Real-time systems

Short polling for presence4 min URL routing3 min

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