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Daniel
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How would you design an Instagram-like backend?

📸 Instagram has roughly 500m Daily Active Users

When designing a system to support that scale there are special considerations that need to be made.

How would you design an Instagram-like app to support 500m DAU?

Try out the newest problem we launched on LeetDesign Share a link to your submission in the comments and I'll give you feedback on how you did!

https://leetdesign.com/problems/instagram

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Sloan the DEV Moderator

Hi there, we encourage authors to share their entire posts here on DEV, rather than mostly pointing to an external link. Doing so helps ensure that readers don’t have to jump around to too many different pages, and it helps focus the conversation right here in the comments section.

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Daniel

Since Dev.to doesn't have a system design editor baked in, its hard to discuss someones attempt without sending them to LeetDesign.

Any alternative approach you'd recommend for grading someones attempt at creating a system design document?

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Saravana Sai

@dannyhabibs can you share me some demo of how to make a answer for this problem