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