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Why is Instagram’s design under fire in massive child safety case | Explained

Meta has agreed to a settlement worth up to $16.68 billion in a case alleging Facebook and Instagram were designed to keep children engaged and collect their data. The company denies wrongdoing, but the agreement could bring major changes for teenage users across the United States.

Why is Instagram’s design under fire in massive child safety case | Explained

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System Design: High-Volume Transaction Processing

System Design: High-Volume Transaction Processing A capstone system design walkthrough — designing a system that processes a very large number of transactions per second — covering sharding and…

  • System designed for high-volume transaction processing
  • Uses Kafka as event log for source of truth
  • Emphasizes idempotency and concurrency control

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