Best System Design Resources

This repository contains the best resources for System Design interview prep.

System Design Fundamentals

• Latency vs Throughput
• SQL vs NoSQL
• CAP Theorom
• Load Balancing
• Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling
• Microservices
• Database Sharding
• Database Replication
• SQL Tuning
• Consistency Patterns
• [REST vs RPC](https://aws.amazon.com/compare/the-difference-between-rpc-and-rest/#:~:text=In%20Remote%20Procedure%20Call%20(RPC,on%20a%20specific%20server%20resource. )
• Message Queues
• TCP vs UDP
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Cache
• ACID Transactions
• Database Indexing
• API Gateway
• Fault Tolerance
• [Content Delivery Network](https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/cdn/#:~:text=A%20content%20delivery%20network%20(CDN,loading%20for%20data%2Dheavy%20applications. )
• Idempotence
• Consistent Hasing
• Reverse Proxy
• API Design
• WebSockets

System Design Interview Template

Must-Do Problems

Easy

• Design TinyURL
• Design Distributed Job Scheduler
• Design Yelp
• Design Parking Garage
• Design Mint
• Design Distributed Key-Value Store

Medium

• Design YouTube
• Design TikTok
• Design Spotify
• Design Facebook
• Design Notification Service
• Design Twitter
• Design Dropbox
• Design Distributed Cache
• Design Google Search

Hard

• Design Uber
• Design Google Maps
• Design Doordash
• Design Distributed Counter
• Design Rate Limiter
• Design Distributed Message Queue
• Design Slack

Courses

• Grokking the System Design Inteview
• ByteByteGo: Ace Your System Design Interview

Books

• Designined Data-Intensive Applications
• System Design Interview Volume 1
• System Design Interview Volume 2

Must-Watch Youtube Videos

• 20 System Design Concepts Explained in 10 minutes
• System Design for Beginners Course
• Why is Kafka Fast?
• System Design Interview: A Step-By-Step Guide

Best Engineering Newsletters

• The Developing Dev by Ryan Peterman
• ByteByteGo by Alex Xu
• System Design Newsletter by Neo Kim
• Byte Sized Design by Alex Nguyen

Top Tech Engineering Blogs

• How OpenAI Scales Kubernetes
• How Stripe migrated a million lines of code
• Sharding & IDs at Instagram
• Debugging with a Netflix Engineer
• Sharding Pinterest: How to scale MySQL
• How Instagram suggests new content
• How Figma Scaled to Multiple Databases
• Finding Kafka's limit at Dropbox

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