Designing a Social Media Application: System Design Interview

TLDRLearn how to design a social media application like Facebook or Instagram for a system design interview. Explore functional and non-functional requirements, database design, capacity estimation, APIs, and system scalability.

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00:00Introduction and video format.

00:07Functional requirements for a social media application.

00:21Non-functional requirements for a social media application.

01:13Capacity estimation for a social media application.

03:08Database design for user information and posts.

06:28APIs for user interactions and search functionality.

09:02System design for small user base.

11:17System design for scaling to millions of users.

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