Design a News Aggregation System (Google News-style)
Company: Rippling
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: This question assesses a candidate's ability to design a large-scale news aggregation system, covering distributed crawling, article deduplication, event clustering, and real-time trending detection. It is a common system design interview topic used to evaluate architectural reasoning about data pipelines, freshness, consistency, and latency trade-offs at scale.
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