Mastering the System Design Interview

Vishal Lakha | Oct 13, 2024

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Learnings from System Design & Tech Interview Course

Scalability & Resiliency

  • Introduction to Scalability: Understanding horizontal and vertical scaling
  • Failover Strategies: High availability and disaster recovery mechanisms
  • Sharding Databases / NoSQL: Partitioning strategies for handling large data
  • Data Lakes: Managing and processing large-scale unstructured data
  • ACID Compliance & CAP Theorem: Trade-offs in distributed databases
  • Using CAP to Choose a Database: Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance considerations

Caching & Content Delivery

  • Caching Introduction: How caching improves performance
  • Caching Technologies: Memcached, Redis, and other solutions
  • Eviction Strategies: LRU, LFU, FIFO, and other caching policies
  • Content Distribution Networks (CDNs): Enhancing web performance and scalability

Distributed Storage & Big Data

  • Introduction to Scaling Data: Challenges and best practices
  • Distributed Storage Solutions: HDFS, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage
  • HDFS Architecture: How Hadoop Distributed File System works
  • Apache Spark: Big data processing framework overview
  • Cloud Computing Overview: Fundamentals of cloud-based architectures

Algorithms & Data Structures

  • Linked Lists: Concepts and implementations
  • Graphs & Graph Traversal: BFS, DFS, and their applications
  • Search Algorithms: Binary search, linear search
  • Sort Algorithms: Quick sort, merge sort, bubble sort
  • Information Retrieval: Indexing and searching techniques

System Design Interviews

  • Defining Requirements: Clarifying business and technical needs
  • Design Strategies: Layered architecture, microservices, event-driven design
  • Mock Interviews: Practicing real-world system design scenarios

System Design Case Studies

  • URL Shortening Service: Architecture and implementation
  • Restaurant Reservation System: Handling bookings and availability
  • Web Crawler: Designing scalable web scraping solutions
  • Top-Sellers System: Tracking and ranking best-selling items
  • Video Sharing Service: Handling video uploads, streaming, and distribution
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