my design from reading the book:

for interested readers on the topic:

📌  links to resources that will be of massive help here (visual explanations and diagrams are 🔥 there so have a look as this is smth you’ll need in your interviews):

• Designing DropBox (similar app as GDrive): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UZ1ngy-kOI
• the good old, GeeksForGeeks: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/design-dropbox-a-system-design-interview-question/

The Requirements Checklist

Before diving in, let's make sure we understand what our version of Google Drive needs to do. We want to support:

• File Storage: Store a massive amount of user files.
• File Sync: Automatically sync files across multiple devices (desktop, mobile, web).
• File Sharing: Allow users to share files and folders with others, with varying permission levels (view, edit, comment).
• Collaboration: Enable real-time co-editing of documents (like Google Docs).
• Version History: Keep track of previous versions of files.
• Search: Allow users to quickly find files.
• Access Control: Securely control access to files and folders.
• Scalability and Reliability: Handle millions of users and petabytes of data with high availability.

Core Components

At a high level, our Google Drive system will consist of the following key components:

1. Clients: The Google Drive applications (desktop, web, mobile).