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Live Stream: Design a Real-Time Live Streaming Platform with Chat and Viewer Counts

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Round 1 - System Design Problem Design a live streaming platform (think Twitch/YouTube Live) supporting: Streamers push video to an ingest server via RTMP Viewers watch the stream with <5 second latency at any scale Real-time chat: millions of viewers sending messages to the same stream Live viewer count updated every second Key Design Areas Ingest and transcoding: RTMP ingest -> transcode to HLS/DASH at multiple bitrates -> push to CDN edge Delivery: adaptive bitrate over HLS; CDN handles viewe…

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This is a candidate experience report from a jane street interview during the phone round.

It covers the following topics: System Design, Coding, Phone, Onsite .

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