System Design Interview - An insider's guide

System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide (Volume 1)

System design interviews are the most difficult to tackle of all technical interview questions. This book is Volume 1 of the System Design Interview - An insider's guide series that provides a reliable strategy and knowledge base for approaching a broad range of system design questions. This book provides a step-by-step framework for 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

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