Design Proximity 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 Proximity Service"]
    A --> F1["Spatial Indexing Geohash vs QuadTree"]
    A --> F2["Database Sharding Location-based partitioning"]
    A --> F3["Read vs Write Patterns Static Yelp vs Dynamic Uber"]
    A --> F4["Accuracy vs Performance trade-offs"]

3. Key Focus Areas

• 1
  Spatial Indexing (Geohash vs QuadTree)
• 2
  Database Sharding (Location-based partitioning)
• 3
  Read vs Write Patterns (Static Yelp vs Dynamic Uber)
• 4
  Accuracy vs Performance trade-offs