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Design Facebook's News Feed

Asked by:Facebook

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How will you handle fanout: push model, pull model, or hybrid? How does the system change for a user with millions of friends/followers?

How will you fetch and score new content at scale - especially when a user opens the app after days?

How will you handle the scalability of writes and reads - e.g., batching, caching, partitioning?