Design a Highly Available Social Feed and Trending System

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Design a social platform with posts, follows, engagement, home timelines, and windowed trending results. The solution examines hybrid feed fan-out, popular-account spikes, cache stampedes, idempotent counters, partitioning, replication, and degraded behavior during component failures.

Design a Highly Available Social Feed and Trending System

Company: Socure

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: Design a social platform with posts, follows, engagement, home timelines, and windowed trending results. The solution examines hybrid feed fan-out, popular-account spikes, cache stampedes, idempotent counters, partitioning, replication, and degraded behavior during component failures.

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Sep 4, 2026
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