System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide

✍ Scribed by Alex Xu

• Publisher: Independently published
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The system design interview is considered to be the most complex and most difficult technical job interview by many. This book provides a step-by-step framework on how to tackle a system design question. It includes many real-world examples to illustrate the systematic approach with detailed steps that you can follow.

What’s inside?
• An insider’s take on what interviewers really look for and why.
• A 4-step framework for solving any system design interview question.
• 16 real system design interview questions with detailed solutions.
• 188 diagrams to visually explain how different systems work.

✦ Table of Contents

Table Of Contents
Chapter 1: Scale From Zero To Millions Of Users
Chapter 2: Back-of-the-envelope Estimation
Chapter 3: A Framework For System Design Interviews
Chapter 4: Design A Rate Limiter
Chapter 5: Design Consistent Hashing
Chapter 6: Design A Key-value Store
Chapter 7: Design A Unique Id Generator In Distributed Systems
Chapter 8: Design A Url Shortener
Chapter 9: Design A Web Crawler
Chapter 10: Design A Notification System
Chapter 11: Design A News Feed System
Chapter 12: Design A Chat System
Chapter 13: Design A Search Autocomplete System
Chapter 14: Design Youtube
Chapter 15: Design Google Drive
Chapter 16: The Learning Continues

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Web Applications; Distributed Systems; Scalability; Web Crawlers; Software Architecture; Directed Acyclic Graphs; System Design