System Design Interview – An insider's guide

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

System design questions are often the most difficult of all technical interview questions. This book makes them easier to tackle. It is Volume 1 of the ‘System Design Interview - An Insider’s Guide’ series. This volume provides a reliable strategy and knowledge base for approaching a broad range of system design questions that you may encounter. It will help you feel confident during this important interview. This book provides a step-by-step framework for how to tackle a system design question. It also includes many real-world examples to illustrate a systematic approach, with detailed and well-explained steps 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.
• 15 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

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