Hacking the System Design Interview: Real Big Tech Interview Questions and In-depth Solutions

Book Synopsis: #1 Book Pick for System Design Interviews by Five Books in 2022.Get the inside edge for your system design interview.Written by a software engineer at Google, this book will teach you how to ace the system design interview. This book includes real interview questions based on hundreds of interviews conducted at big tech companies, and their detailed solutions. Learn software and system fundamentals in clear and engaging lessons, distilled from 15+ years of experience.In this book, you will learn:A systematic approach to tackling any system design question by studying step-by-step solutions to real system design interview questionsHow to design systems by using recurring components, the building blocks of systemsThe fundamentals of a software system: servers, services, machines, applications, components, and modulesPatterns in service design: microservices vs. monolith, orchestration vs. choreography, loose coupling, and high cohesionDatabase concepts: data modeling, relational vs. NoSQL, denormalization, replication, and consistencyDistributed system principles: integration, networking protocols, REST vs. RPC, and CAP theoremBased on hundreds of interviews, Hacking the System Design Interview is the definitive guide to learning about systems and building a comprehensive foundation for your interview. It provides an insider view of the big tech interview process, and provides proven techniques that will help you succeed in your interview.Hacking the System Design Interview will prepare you for success in your next tech interview. Get the book today, and get your dream job tomorrow. Walk through designs of recurring components that are the building blocks of systems:
Web server
API gateway
Load balancer
Distributed cache
Asynchronous queue
Object storage
CDN
Fan-out service
Unique ID generator
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Learn a systematic approach to tackling any system design question by studying step-by-step solutions to real system design interview questions, including:
Newsfeed and Timeline: build a performant system that provides real-time newsfeed updates.
Rideshare Application: use R-trees to build a system for spatial indexing and location-based searching.
Social Network Graph Search Algorithm: create a bidirectional search to traverse a social network.
Track the Most Frequently Accessed Items: use a count-min sketch to reduce the space complexity in a system that processes large volumes of data.
Autocomplete System: use a trie data structure to perform prefix lookup in a real-time typeahead system.
Distributed Message Queue: scale a system with asynchronous and event-driven architecture.
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