Project Description for Facebook
Explore how to design and implement key Facebook features such as friend circle discovery, cross-platform data syncing, API rate limiting, and content moderation. Understand how these problems relate to common coding interview topics and prepare to apply similar strategies in your own solutions.
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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 ...