TY  - GEN
AU  - Xu, Alex
AU  - Lam, Sahn 
TI  - System design interview: an insider's guide vol. 1 & 2
SN  - 9781736049112
U1  - 650.144 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - ByteByteGo
KW  - Computer programming - employment
KW  - Computer programming - problems, exercises
KW  - Computer programming - vocational guidance
KW  - Employment interviewing
N2  - 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



System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide (Volume 2)

It covers a different set of system-design interview questions and solutions. Although reading Volume 1 is helpful, it is not required. This book should be accessible to readers who have a basic understanding of distributed systems. This volume provides a reliable strategy and knowledge base for approaching a broad range of system design questions that you may encounter. It will help you feel confident during this important interview. This book provides a step-by-step framework for how to tackle a system design question. It also includes many real-world examples to illustrate a systematic approach, with detailed and well-explained steps 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. - 13 real system design interview questions with detailed solutions. - 300+ diagrams to visually explain how different systems work. 
Table of Contents Chapter 
1: Proximity Service Chapter 
2: Nearby Friends Chapter 
3: Google Maps Chapter 
4: Distributed Message Queue Chapter 
5: Metrics Monitoring Chapter 
6: Ad Click Event Aggregation Chapter 
7: Hotel Reservation Chapter 
8: Distributed Email Service Chapter 
9: S3-like Object Storage Chapter 
10: Real-time Gaming Leaderboard Chapter 
11: Payment System Chapter 
12: Digital Wallet Chapter 
13: Stock Exchange
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