--- title: How To Build Recommendation Algorithms And System Designs description: This post covers the system design and recommendation algorithms of various big companies including Uber, YouTube, and Spotify. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-recommendation-algorithms-and-system-designs-cyatet36i twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How To Build Recommendation Algorithms And System Designs | daily.dev og:description: This post covers the system design and recommendation algorithms of various big companies including Uber, YouTube, and Spotify. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-recommendation-algorithms-and-system-designs-cyatet36i og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cYateT36i.png og:image:alt: How To Build Recommendation Algorithms And System Designs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How To Build Recommendation Algorithms And System Designs **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 7 min read · 270 upvotes · 17 comments ## Summary This post covers the system design and recommendation algorithms of various big companies including Uber, YouTube, and Spotify. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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Awesome article!","datePublished":"2023-03-13T15:10:10.302Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cYateT36i#c-jfwIHYnn8","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Princess Santillan","url":"https://daily.dev/pirinsesa","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/v1678089761/avatars/avatar_keBdJfcjWPzhBCjJvYF9Z.jpg"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Excelent post!","datePublished":"2023-03-13T23:11:44.698Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cYateT36i#c-k69vfy1RX","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Fede","url":"https://daily.dev/traffict"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Very informative","datePublished":"2023-04-26T04:29:22.274Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cYateT36i#c-CbuMZQU4z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Indrajith Madhumal","url":"https://daily.dev/zetcco","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/66688464?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Thanks for a priceless article!","datePublished":"2023-03-30T06:56:12.362Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cYateT36i#c-GJLmcXyXB","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kao Apithep","url":"https://daily.dev/kaoapitheppdev","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/49969602?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nice diagrams. Very informative","datePublished":"2023-04-26T04:29:05.121Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cYateT36i#c-wktIzZc1y","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Indrajith Madhumal","url":"https://daily.dev/zetcco","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/66688464?v=4"}}]} ```