Design a Nearby Places Service · System Design Interview

Design a Nearby Places ServiceDesign the service behind a "near me" search: someone opens a map or picks "coffee", and gets the places around them, nearest and best rated first.What it has to do

Return the businesses within a chosen radius of a point, optionally filtered by category, ordered by distance and rating

Show a business’s details

An owner adds or edits a business, and searches show the change by the next day

Scale

Businesses listed: 200 million

Searches per second at peak: 100,000

Out of scope

Reviews and photos

Directions and routing

Search by business name

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