7 Design Craigslist
This chapter covers
- Designing an application with two distinct types of users
- Considering geolocation routing for partitioning users
- Designing read-heavy vs. write-heavy applications
- Handling minor deviations during the interview
We want to design a web application for classifieds posts. Craigslist is an example of a typical web application that may have more than a billion users. It is partitioned by geography. We can discuss the overall system, which includes browser and mobile apps, a stateless backend, simple storage requirements, and analytics. More use cases and constraints can be added for an open-ended discussion. This chapter is unique in that it is the only one in this book where we discuss a monolith architecture ...
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