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Project Description for Facebook

Understand how to develop key Facebook and Instagram integration features such as syncing stories, limiting API requests, and flagging inappropriate content. Learn practical coding solutions for real-world interview problems inspired by Facebook’s engineering challenges, preparing you to tackle similar algorithm and system design questions.

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Introduction

Facebook is the biggest social media company in the world. The company also owns other social media platforms like Instagram as well, and the engineering team at Facebook keeps trying to find better ways to connect people among all their platforms. This allows users to share and view content by their connections throughout all the platforms.

The scenario and the problems discussed in this chapter relate to Facebook’s content sharing and viewing functionality across different platforms and how we can improve them.

Statement

Let’s say you are a developer on the Facebook engineering team. Your team ...