System Design: Twitter

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Twitter Ads

Let's design a Twitter like social media service, similar to services like Facebook, Instagram, etc.

#Marketing #Ad Networks #Marketing Platform 1 social mentions

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Apache Spark

Recording analytics and metrics is one of our extended requirements. As we will be using Apache Kafka to publish all sorts of events, we can process these events and run analytics on the data using Apache Spark which is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.

#Databases #Big Data #Big Data Analytics 56 social mentions

3

Redis

We can use solutions like Redis or Memcached and cache 20% of the daily traffic but what kind of cache eviction policy would best fit our needs?

#Key-Value Database #NoSQL Databases #Databases 183 social mentions

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Firebase Cloud Messaging

Push notifications are an integral part of any social media platform. We can use a message queue or a message broker such as Apache Kafka with the notification service to dispatch requests to Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) or Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) which will handle the delivery of the push notifications to user devices.

#Data Integration #Stream Processing #Web Push Notifications 37 social mentions

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Facebook

Let's design a Twitter like social media service, similar to services like Facebook, Instagram, etc.

#Social Networks #Social Network #Decentralized Social Network 450 social mentions