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System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2

Alex Xu, Sahn Lam · 2 HN comments
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System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide (Volume 2)This book can be seen as a sequel to the book: System Design Interview - An Insider’s Guide. 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 ContentsChapter 1: Proximity ServiceChapter 2: Nearby FriendsChapter 3: Google MapsChapter 4: Distributed Message QueueChapter 5: Metrics MonitoringChapter 6: Ad Click Event AggregationChapter 7: Hotel ReservationChapter 8: Distributed Email ServiceChapter 9: S3-like Object StorageChapter 10: Real-time Gaming LeaderboardChapter 11: Payment SystemChapter 12: Digital WalletChapter 13: Stock Exchange
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I thought this was really useful in getting a quick overview of a variety of systems in the real world, even though the book itself is designed to answer interview questions. https://www.amazon.com/System-Design-Interview-Insiders-Guid...
mirchiseth
Came here to say the same. System Design Interview book has digestible level of info on what the OP is asking (I think :-) )
The market rewards being good at job searching and interviewing. It makes a bigger impact on compensation than actual engineering value.

So get better at interviewing.

If you're already focused on coding, the next piece is systems design.

The more senior the job, the more likely part of the interview process is moving boxes and arrows around to design a scalable, reliable system.

This book is a great place to start: https://www.amazon.com/System-Design-Interview-Insiders-Guid...

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