System Design Interview: An Insider's Guide

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