Design a Ranked Social Feed with Hybrid Fan-Out

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Design a read-heavy ranked social feed that gives authors immediate visibility for their own new posts. Explore hybrid fan-out, durable content and follow data, bounded inboxes, ranking, caching, pagination, retries, hot publishers, and recovery.

Design a Ranked Social Feed with Hybrid Fan-Out

Company: LinkedIn

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Onsite

Overview: Design a read-heavy ranked social feed that gives authors immediate visibility for their own new posts. Explore hybrid fan-out, durable content and follow data, bounded inboxes, ranking, caching, pagination, retries, hot publishers, and recovery.

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May 13, 2026
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