A comprehensive guide to designing a music streaming platform like Spotify for system design interviews. Covers architecture components including blob storage for audio files, SQL databases for metadata, CDN integration, and API design. Explores capacity planning for 500K users and 30M songs, read/write workflows, and scaling strategies like database replication, sharding, and horizontal scaling. Includes practical considerations for audio delivery, caching, reliability patterns, and monitoring metrics.

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Requirements & AssumptionsCapacity PlanningSpotify System Design: High Level ArchitectureSystem WorkflowAPI DesignData StoragePutting It All TogetherScalabilityReliability & Operations
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