Grokking the System Design Interview, Volume II
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Google News: Data Model and Storage

Step 5: Data Model and Storage Design

Article Data: Each news article can be represented by a data object with fields like: article_id, title, content_snippet, url, source_id, publish_time, category, keywords, image_url, etc. We might also store a vector for content (if doing recommendations) or flags (trending, breaking, etc.).

  • We will assign a globally unique article_id (could be a hash of the URL or an auto-generated ID like a Snowflake ID). This acts as the key for storing and referencing the article.

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