Design Spotify Like a Senior Engineer (System Design Interview)

A comprehensive walkthrough of designing a music streaming platform like Spotify, covering requirements gathering, capacity planning, high-level architecture, API design, database schema, and scalability strategies. The guide demonstrates how to handle 500,000 users and 30 million songs initially, then scale to 50 million users and 200 million songs using techniques like CDN distribution, database sharding, read replicas, and regional blob storage. Emphasizes the importance of planning and architecture over immediate coding, highlighting the skill progression from mid-level to senior engineering roles.