System Design Interview: Uber or a Similar App (Grab, Lyft or Ola) Design

SystemDesign
Tech Wrench
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13 min readMay 19, 2021

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Ride-sharing app

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With a few taps on the phone, you can make a ride available at your doorstep to take you wherever you want. This is possible with a ride-sharing service such as Uber or Grab. How does such a service handle each ride request? Moreover, how does it scale the service to millions of users. Designing Uber (or Grab or Lyft) is a common question you can encounter in the system design round in interviews. In this post you’ll learn how to design a ride-sharing app.

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