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Fintech System Design Case Studies

3 Fintech case studies from Bloomberg with full breakdowns.

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Companies

Capital One5Bloomberg3Goldman Sachs2JPMorgan2Rippling2Uber2Amazon1Databricks1OpenAI1Salesforce1Visa1

Topics

Distributed Systems 90Real-time 51Storage 43Data Pipelines 42API Design 41Databases 38Caching 37Security 32AI / ML 23Algorithms 20Scheduling 20Search 19Event Driven 14Fintech 14Payments 11Geospatial 11Analytics 11Observability 11E-commerce 11Messaging 10CDN 9Concurrency 8Ads 8Frontend 8Booking System 6Networking 5IoT 4Media 3Media Streaming 3Collaboration 3Rate Limiting 2
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Low-Latency Holiday Lookup Service
4 min readCachingAPI DesignFintech
Beginner▶ Mock
Real-Time Market Data Distribution and VWAP (Bloomberg)
5 min readFintechReal-timeDistributed Systems
Advanced▶ Mock
Stock Trading Platform (Zerodha / Robinhood)
6 min readFintechPaymentsReal-time
Advanced▶ Mock

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What is Fintech in system design?

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