Medium-Scale Blogging Platform Design
    Stage 1 of 5
    Challenge Context

    A startup is building a new blogging platform aimed at professional writers and content creators. The initial version needs to provide a seamless content creation experience with rich text editing, image embedding, draft management, and publishing workflows. Writers expect a responsive editor that autosaves their work, supports various formatting options, and allows them to visualize how content will appear when published.

    As the Technical Lead, you've been tasked with addressing this challenge. The CTO and CPO have outlined the following requirements:

      Design a content management system for creating, editing, and publishing blog posts

      Implement rich text editing with support for formatting, headings, links, and embedded media

      Create an autosave system that prevents content loss during editing

      Build a media uploading service that processes and stores images

      Implement draft and publishing workflows with preview capabilities

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