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Design a Ride-Sharing Service: Near, Now, Claimed Once (2026)

Design a ride-sharing service in a system design interview: geo index cell sizes, location ingest, batched matching, expiring claims and an exactly-once ride state.

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Intermediate11 minDesign a Ride-Sharing Service: Failures, Hot Cells, Surge and Payments (2026) Ride-sharing design follow-ups: a failure table, hot cells, city failover, smoothed surge, payment idempotency, location privacy, SLOs, cost and a 45-minute plan.

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