Tan Z. Acing the System Design Interview 2024 Final

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The system design interview is one of the hardest challenges you’ll face in the software engineering hiring process. This practical book gives you the insights, the skills, and the hands-on practice you need to ace the toughest system design interview questions and land the job and salary you want.
In Acing the System Design Interview you will master a structured and organized approach to present system design ideas like:
Scaling applications to support heavy traffic
Distributed transactions techniques to ensure data consistency
Services for functional partitioning such as API gateway and service mesh
Common API paradigms including REST, RPC, and GraphQL
Caching strategies, including their tradeoffs
Logging, monitoring, and alerting concepts that are critical in any system design
Communication skills that demonstrate your engineering maturity
Don’t be daunted by the complex, open-ended nature of system design interviews! In this in-depth guide, author Zhiyong Tan shares what he’s learned on both sides of the interview table. You’ll dive deep into the common technical topics that arise during interviews and learn how to apply them to mentally perfect different kinds of systems.
preface
Part 1
A walkthrough of system design concepts
A typical system design interview flow
Non-functional requirements
Scaling databases
Distributed
Common services for functional partitioning
Part 2
Design Craigslist
Design a rate-limiting service
Design a notification/alerting service
Design a database batch auditing service
Autocomplete/typeahead
Design Flickr
Design a Content Distribution Network (CDN)
Design a text messaging app
Design Airbnb
Design a news feed
Design a dashboard of top 10 products on Amazon by sales volume
A Monoliths vs. microservices
B OAuth 2.0 authorization and OpenID Connect authentication
C C4 Model
D Two-phase commit (2PC)