High-level Design of Twitter
Define the initial high-level System Design for Twitter by mapping user interactions to core building blocks. Learn to specify precise API endpoints for all major features, including posting, searching, and viewing timelines.
User-system interaction
We begin with the high-level design of the Twitter system, identifying key building blocks and components. We will explore specific components in detail later in this chapter.
Twitter components
Users post tweets via the load balancer to application servers for persistent storage.
DNS resolves domain names to IP addresses for communication between services.
CDN serves frequently requested content from edge servers to reduce latency.
A load balancer ...