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Design a URL Shortener
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Design a News Feed
Design a Chat System
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Design a Notification System
Design a Search Autocomplete
Design a Web Crawler
Design a Video Streaming Platform
Design a File Storage and Sync Service
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Design a Ticket Booking System

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Building Blocks5

Distributed Patterns4

Design a URL Shortener
Design a Rate Limiter
Design a News Feed
Design a Chat System
Design a Distributed Key-Value Store
Design a Notification System
Design a Search Autocomplete
Design a Web Crawler
Design a Video Streaming Platform
Design a File Storage and Sync Service
Design a Ride-Sharing Service
Design a Ticket Booking System

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Design a URL Shortener

A complete worked design, from requirements and estimates through to encoding, storage and caching.

12 min readUpdated 2026-09-01system-designcase-study