System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide

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 provides many 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.

- 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