Design real-time crypto prices homepage

Company: Coinbase

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: hard

Interview Round: Onsite

Quick Answer: This question evaluates system design competency for real-time, low-latency data pipelines and client fanout for a crypto prices homepage, testing skills in data ingestion and normalization, streaming updates, API design, caching and storage, scalability, multi-region reliability, and monitoring.