Design the API for Tinder. Then talk about scaling it.

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Design the API for Tinder.  Then talk about scaling it.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I laid out the endpoints that would be necessary, how an app using them would call them, and what they would return.  After defining the endpoints and how they generally work, we talked about how I would go about scaling—talked caching, sharding, and how those interact with geographic concerns.

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There's a lot of elements to typically cover in these questions, clarifications, scoping, making sure you're answering the actual question the interviewer is looking for you to answer, etc.


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