Real-world Case Studies
Learn from the world's most successful tech companies. Dive deep into their architectures, challenges, and the engineering decisions that power billions of users.
Uber
AdvancedUber Ride Sharing Platform
Deep dive into Uber's architecture evolution from monolith to microservices, handling millions of rides globally.
Netflix
AdvancedNetflix Streaming Architecture
Explore Netflix's streaming architecture, CDN strategy, and how they serve billions of hours of content globally.
GitHub
AdvancedGitHub Collaboration Platform
Deep dive into GitHub's platform architecture, Git at scale, and collaboration tools for millions of developers.
Instagram Photo Sharing at Scale
How Instagram handles billions of photos: storage, processing, delivery, and scaling challenges.
Redis
AdvancedRedis Distributed Key-Value Store
Design a distributed key-value store: partitioning, replication, consistency, and fault tolerance.
Discord
AdvancedDiscord Real-time Communication
How Discord scales real-time messaging to millions of concurrent users using Elixir and distributed systems.
OpenAI
AdvancedChatGPT Architecture
How OpenAI built and scaled ChatGPT: model serving, infrastructure, and handling millions of AI conversations.
Twitter Snowflake ID Generator
Design a distributed unique ID generator like Twitter Snowflake: requirements, algorithms, and trade-offs.
Google Search Crawler Architecture
Build scalable web crawlers: distributed architecture, rate limiting, politeness policies, and data processing.
WhatsApp Messaging at Scale
WhatsApp messaging architecture: Erlang concurrency, end-to-end encryption, and handling billions of messages daily.
Zoom
AdvancedZoom Video Infrastructure
Zoom's video conferencing infrastructure: scaling to millions of concurrent meetings with low latency.
Spotify
AdvancedML Recommendation Engine
Spotify's ML recommendation system: collaborative filtering, NLP analysis, and personalized playlist generation.
Tesla
AdvancedAutopilot Vision System
Tesla Autopilot vision system: neural networks, computer vision, and real-time autonomous driving.
Meta
AdvancedFeed Ranking Algorithm
Meta's feed ranking system: machine learning pipeline, A/B testing, and personalized content delivery at scale.
Airbnb
AdvancedSearch & Pricing Engine
Airbnb's search and pricing system: ranking algorithms, dynamic pricing, and personalized recommendations.
Anthropic
AdvancedConstitutional AI
Scalable oversight and harmlessness training for large language models
TikTok
AdvancedTikTok Short Video Platform
TikTok's architecture: short video processing, real-time recommendations, global CDN, and viral content distribution.
Uber
AdvancedUber MLOps Production Pipeline
End-to-end MLOps pipeline: automated training, deployment, monitoring, and continuous delivery for production ML systems.
Google Pixel Camera AI Pipeline
Edge AI deployment: mobile and IoT constraints, model compression, offline capability, and distributed edge inference systems.
Gmail Smart Compose GenAI System
Real-time AI system with transformer architecture and privacy-preserving ML
Study Methodology
Each case study includes architecture diagrams, scaling challenges, key design decisions, lessons learned, and actionable takeaways you can apply to your own systems.
Technical architecture and implementation details
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Key takeaways and design principles