Project Description for Facebook
Explore how to implement Facebook's core platform features such as friend circle identification, cross-platform content syncing, request rate limiting, and content moderation. Learn to design efficient systems addressing real-world integration challenges across social media platforms within the context of Rust programming and coding interviews.
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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 ...