The Question
DesignMeta News Feed Design
Design a large-scale social media activity feed system similar to Meta's News Feed. The system must support hundreds of millions of users, handle the 'celebrity fan-out' problem, and ensure that users can view their personalized feed with sub-second latency while maintaining eventual consistency for new posts.
Redis
Cassandra
Kafka
Hybrid Fan-out
PostgreSQL
February 25, 2026