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Designing a Service Like Twitter
In today’s digital landscape, social media platforms have revolutionized communication and information sharing. Twitter, currently know as X, is a microblogging service allowing users to share short messages called tweets, has emerged as a global phenomenon with millions of active users and billions of tweets generated daily. Designing a service like Twitter presents unique challenges in scalability, reliability, and user experience.
This chapter explores the system design of a Twitter-like service, applying our learnings from basic system design blocks to create a scalable and efficient platform. We will examine the core features, non-functional requirements, data models, and scale calculations that form ...
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