Ride Sharing System Design

This case study focuses on designing a ride sharing platform for riders, drivers, real-time location updates, matching, trip lifecycle management, pricing, and payments.

What This Article Covers

• Scope and interview expectations
• Rider request, driver matching, trip acceptance, pickup, route tracking, payment, and rating workflows
• Service boundaries for rider, driver, matching, location, trip, pricing, payment, and notification services
• Geospatial indexing, location streaming, ETA calculation, and surge pricing
• Availability, consistency, failure handling, and user safety concerns
• Observability, incident handling, and operational trade-offs

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