Introduction: FAANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google) are renowned for their rigorous software engineering interviews, with system design questions playing a crucial role. These questions assess your ability to design large-scale, scalable, and maintainable systems. In this blog post, we present 10 real-life system design questions that you may encounter during FAANG interviews, along with the type of system architecture each question represents and a brief description of aspects to consider while designing the system. Design a system like Twitter (Social Media Platform) In this question, you will be asked to design a social media platform that can handle massive amounts of data and scale to accommodate millions or billions of users. Focus on aspects like data modeling, data storage, feed generation, and search functionality. This will demonstrate your understanding of distributed systems, databases, and caching strategies. Design a URL shortening service like bi