System requirements
Functional:
The user can see twittes
The user can send twitte
The user can like/dislike one twitte
The user can comment twitte
Non-Functional:
Speed Performance, Low-latency, Scalabilty, A/B Testing,
Capacity estimation
1 twitte 140 characters 10kb , DAU: 1Billions,
API design
get call user first load feeds:
get :
url: /feeds/v1/
header: {
user_id, token, bucket_id, experiment_id, location_info, device_info,
}
params: {
query, tags[etc, news, sports], sorted_by:[relevent/timeline], cursor_id, limit
}
response: {
user_info.
twitee_lists:[{
twitee_id,
title,
context,
short_description,
image/video,
commentList :['good', 'nice', 'lookgood']
}],
bucket_version,
next_cursor
}
post call, user create twitte: /new_twitte/v1
post call, user like/dislike one twitte
post call, user make some comment to the twittee
Database design
Timeline DB
TwitteEventDB
High-level design
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Request flows
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Detailed component design
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Trade offs/Tech choices
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Failure scenarios/bottlenecks
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Future improvements
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