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StreamSocial - a global social media analytics and engagement platform designed to handle 50M requests. This system will process user interactions, generate real-time trends, personalized feeds, and analytics across multiple services.

Uber-Lite: Architecting High-Scale Geo-Spatial Matchmaking Systems
Standard engineering curriculums teach you to store data in a database and query it. That architecture collapses under the weight of real-time geospatial streams. This course exists to teach you the Event-Driven, Log-Centric architecture used by high-frequency trading firms and massive logistics platforms. It bridges the gap between theoretical distributed systems concepts (CAP theorem, sharding) and the bare-metal reality of JVM garbage collection pauses, TCP buffer limits, and RocksDB memory tuning.
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