Design autocomplete and merchant bulk edits

Q: Design autocomplete and merchant bulk edits

This question evaluates a candidate's system design competency across real-time search/autocomplete and large-scale product update pipelines, covering API design, ranking logic and personalization, data modeling, offline/online components, concurrency and conflict handling, consistency, fault tolerance, observability, and auditability.

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System Design Prompts

1) Design search engine input suggestions (autocomplete)

Design a system that provides real-time query suggestions as a user types in a search box.

Cover:

APIs and end-to-end request flow
Ranking logic (e.g., popularity, personalization)
Data sources and offline/online components
Latency and scale expectations
Handling updates (trending queries, new queries)

2) Design a merchant product update system (bulk + single-item edits)

Design a system that allows merchants to update product data:

Single-item edits (CRUD for one product)
Bulk edits (e.g., upload a file / run a job that updates thousands of SKUs)

Cover:

APIs, data model, validation
Concurrency/conflict handling (simultaneous updates)
Observability and audit trail
Partial failures, retries, idempotency
Rollback / revert capability

Design autocomplete and merchant bulk edits

System Design Prompts

1) Design search engine input suggestions (autocomplete)

2) Design a merchant product update system (bulk + single-item edits)

Solution

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Design autocomplete and merchant bulk edits

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System Design Prompts

1) Design search engine input suggestions (autocomplete)

2) Design a merchant product update system (bulk + single-item edits)

Solution

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