The Social Network

Topic: Large scale system design.

Challenge:Contestants will diagram and detail the architecture for a social network similar to Facebook.

Visualization: Viewers will see as buildings representing the servers are attacked with millions of users in traffic and security testing hacks.

Contestants: Winning contestants from Competition episodes

Summary: In "The Social Network", the semi-final episode of Whiteboard Challenge, contestants diagram, architect, and plan the technical architecture and project charter for a social network similar to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Zennect which includes everything from user experience design for mobile and web front end development to server side scalable architecture to support billions of active unique users.