System Design · Rippling · Hard
You are asked to design the backend for a large-scale aggregated news application comparable to a mainstream news reader. The platform continuously collects raw articles from a wide range of origins: direct publisher feeds, RSS/Atom endpoints, and general web scraping. End users open the app and see a time-ordered stream of news stories. The central challenge is deduplication. Different publishers frequently cover the same underlying real-world event—for example, the launch…
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