Design a No-Signup Media Hosting Service System Design Interview

1. Problem Statement

2. Architecture Discussion Map

Use this as one discussion aid, not a single correct answer. Your design should follow from the requirements, scale, and trade-offs you establish.

graph LR
    A["Design a No-Signup Media Hosting Service"]
    A --> F1["Anonymous upload tokens and deletion controls"]
    A --> F2["Object storage and metadata modeling"]
    A --> F3["Image/video processing pipeline"]
    A --> F4["CDN delivery and hot-object protection"]
    A --> F5["Malware, copyright, and abuse handling"]

3. Key Focus Areas

• 1
  Anonymous upload tokens and deletion controls
• 2
  Object storage and metadata modeling
• 3
  Image/video processing pipeline
• 4
  CDN delivery and hot-object protection
• 5
  Malware, copyright, and abuse handling

4. What Strong Candidates Should Demonstrate

• ✓Define ownership, deletion, expiration, and abuse controls when uploads are anonymous.
• ✓Separate metadata, binary storage, processing, and delivery paths.
• ✓Handle multiple media types and asynchronous transformations.