AirbnbDifficulty: Advanced
Flexible Authentication: Reimagining authentication for millions of users at Airbnb
Airbnb redesigned their authentication infrastructure to handle millions of users with flexible, scalable mechanisms supporting diverse identity verification methods.
Interview angle
How do you design an authentication system that scales to millions of users while supporting multiple authentication methods and ensuring security?
- Failure / topic
Authentication system scalability and flexibility for massive user bases
- Source
- medium.com