intermediateReal System Design Problems

Design YouTube — video upload, transcoding, storage, streaming.

Tests whether you can design a pipeline for chunked upload, async transcoding, and adaptive bitrate streaming. Asked at: Google, Microsoft

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Generate a complete, structured system design answer — requirements, capacity estimation, API design, architecture, database choice, scaling, caching, fault tolerance, security, trade-offs, and more, walked through the way a strong senior engineer would in a real interview.

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