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The system design interview can be the hardest part of the software engineering hiring process. This practical book gives you the insights, skills, and practice you need to ace the toughest system design interview questions and land the job and salary you want. Acing the System Design Interview teaches you how to effectively demonstrate your system design expertise in an interview environment. This in-depth guide's serious technical overviews cover everything there is to know about system design—from the frameworks for functional partitioning, to different API paradigms.
In this in-depth guide, you’ll learn how to quickly assess a question, identify an advantageous approach, and then clearly articulate it to an interviewer. A structured approach to preparing for your interview, handy note-taking techniques, and self-evaluation templates help you prep and assess how you did, and improve your future performance.
TOPICS IN SYSTEM DESIGN INTERVIEWS
The system design interview
Non-functional requirements
Scaling databases
Distributed transactions
Functional partitioning
A typical interview flow
SAMPLE SYSTEM DESIGN INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS
Craigslist
Rate limiting service
Notification/alerting service
Database batch auditing service
Autocomplete/typeahead
Flickr
CDN
A text messaging app
Airbnb
A news feed
A dashboard of top 10 products on Amazon by sales volume
APPENDIXES
A Monolith vs microservices
B OAuth 2.0 authorization and OpenID Connect authentication
C Two-phase commit (2PC)