Canva System Design Interview
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SD round 45 min: Design a scalable real-time chat application, including…
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- 2025-11-01
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Move from requirements and scale estimates to APIs, data models, architecture, failure handling, and explicit trade-offs.
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This entry is labelled Medium. Build a correct baseline first, then add stronger edge-case, scale, testing, and trade-off reasoning for more senior roles.
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