Architecture Compendium
Interactive diagrams of 3 real-world systems with step-through data flows.
Netflix
Global video streaming platform serving 260M+ subscribers with personalized content delivery, adaptive bitrate streaming, and microservices at massive scale.
260M+
subscribers
~500M hours/day
daily Streaming Hours
10 data flow steps · 12 components
Twitter / X
Social media platform handling 500M+ tweets per day with real-time timeline delivery, trend detection, and search across billions of tweets.
500M+
daily Tweets
~300K requests/sec
timeline Reads
11 data flow steps · 12 components
Real-time messaging system handling 100B+ messages per day with end-to-end encryption, presence tracking, and media delivery across billions of devices.
100B+
daily Messages
~1B
concurrent Connections
9 data flow steps · 10 components