Design a News Aggregator
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This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable content ingestion and distribution systems, encompassing API-driven fetching, scheduling, deduplication, storage, ranking, freshness guarantees, API rate limiting, and efficient article serving.
Design a news aggregation system that collects articles from many external news sources and serves a unified feed to end users. A key constraint is that the sources do not provide RSS feeds, so the system must periodically call source APIs to fetch new content.
Discuss the end-to-end design, including ingestion, scheduling, deduplication, storage, ranking, freshness, API rate limiting, and how articles are served efficiently to clients.
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