M2 Design Instagram Feed

Fan-out, ranking, and serving 2 billion users their personalized feed

Design Instagram's home feed end-to-end: post ingestion, fan-out strategies (push vs pull vs hybrid), feed ranking, and timeline serving. Understand how Meta handles celebrity accounts, cold-start users, and real-time updates.

Estimated time: 15 minutes

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