advancedReal System Design Problems
Design an Ad Serving System — real-time auction and targeting in milliseconds.
The real-time-auction-and-targeting problem: how ads are selected and ranked within a strict millisecond budget, how targeting criteria are matched against user attributes at scale, and how impression/click events are collected reliably enough to be trusted for billing.
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Design an Ad Serving System — real-time auction and targeting in milliseconds.