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Facebook Live Comments

Fan-out to five million viewers, adaptive sampling so clients survive 100k comments/sec, moderation without ingestion lag, and syncing comments to video playback time rather than wall clock.

Google Docs — Collaborative Editor

OT versus CRDT, selective undo in a multi-user document, history compaction, presence at scale, offline divergence, and the room actor that owns a document.

Online Auction — eBay

Actor-per-auction for linearizable bids, proxy bidding correctness, soft-close anti-sniping, broadcasting price to 200k watchers, and timers that must fire exactly once.

Online Chess — Lichess / Chess.com

Sub-100ms move sync over binary WebSockets, authoritative bitboard validation, clock fairness under network lag, Glicko matchmaking, engine-assistance detection, and spectating a million-viewer game.

Robinhood — Stock Brokerage

A limit order book in memory, LMAX-style single-threaded matching, market data fan-out to millions, buying power under T+1 settlement, and the audit trail regulators require.