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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
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08CMF2CQF
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 12, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8664653403
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.73 x 9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #7,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars (3,364)

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4.6 out of 5 stars
3,364 global ratings

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Customers find the system design book comprehensive and well-organized, covering a wide variety of topics with superb diagrams, and one customer notes it starts from the most important content. Moreover, the book is practical and serves as a great resource for technical interview preparation, featuring lots of real interview questions. However, the readability receives positive feedback for being super comprehensible and easy to follow, while the editing quality is criticized for having lots of typographical and English errors. Additionally, several customers mention the book lacks depth.
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157 customers mention content, 122 positive, 35 negative
Customers find the book's content excellent and comprehensive, serving as a great primer to develop basic knowledge about system design, with one customer noting the useful resources at the end.
This is a great book. Even if you are not preparing for system design interviews, it is still worth reading....Read more
...Besides that, after reading 3 chapters it seems to be a good book so far. Great reference for non-technical folks.Read more
Excellent book! I'm using it for interview prep and it covers most of the design fundamentals got asked in the interviews....Read more
...an encouragement that is remarkably necessary given the low quality....Read more
46 customers mention organization, 38 positive, 8 negative
Customers appreciate the book's organization, noting its comprehensive coverage of system design concepts and superb diagrams. One customer mentions it provides a step-by-step approach to solving problems, while another highlights how it covers a wide variety of topics.
...Short, well organized chapters are the way to go for this type of books. Highly recommended!Read more
...The book is well-structured, easy to follow, and provides a solid foundation for understanding key system design concepts....Read more
...The chapters are light, the information is crisp, the diagrams are superb and simple for remembering and tons of references for extra reading....Read more
The book provides realistic architecture for today's most popular apps such as YouTube, WhatsApp or Google Drive. The writing is clear and concise....Read more
44 customers mention usefulness, 42 positive, 2 negative
Customers find the book helpful and practical, with one customer noting it's particularly useful for junior-mid level engineers, while another mentions it serves as a great resource for those with little knowledge of large system design.
It's very useful but contains a distractingly large number of errorsRead more
very detailed and simplified. highly recommend it. It’s useful even if you are not preparing for interviews.Read more
System Design Interview—An Insider’s Guide is a great resource for anyone looking to prepare for system design interviews....Read more
Very helpful and informational! Gets one ready for system design challenging questions....Read more
40 customers mention interview preparation, 38 positive, 2 negative
Customers find this book essential for system design interviews, providing real questions and detailed guidance. One customer mentions it helps prepare for onsite interviews, while another notes it offers the right level of detail for interview purposes.
great book for system design interview prepRead more
I was VERY happy with this book. Great intro. Great problems. Even great thoughts once you get the job!!Read more
...By reading this book, it fills many gaps/answered lots of questions that I came up by studying Grokking....Read more
...system design problem techniques and frameworks, not only great for interview preparation but for learning as well.Read more
34 customers mention readability, 28 positive, 6 negative
Customers find the book comprehensible and easy to follow, describing it as beginner-friendly.
The book is pretty good. It’s easy to read. There are lots of design diagrams. If you are a visual person, you will love the book....Read more
Good overview of the subject. It's well written and easy to understand. The diagrams help a lot.Read more
...It’s clear, practical, and gives you the tools to tackle even tough design questions with confidence.Read more
...It was a detailed step-by-step guide that is actionable and very easy to follow. -...Read more
19 customers mention editing, 4 positive, 15 negative
Customers criticize the book's editing, noting numerous typographical and English errors throughout the text.
I hope if there is a 0 star. Full of contents copied online, poor english, logic and structure. Not recommended.Read more
...this a lot with software interview related books and websites, missing words and bad grammar, which I assume is a English as a second language thing....Read more
Riddled with grammatical errors, this book isn’t even a sampler platter of delicious system design recipes....Read more
...it will give you the foundation you need to present problems in a clear manner and in a style consistent with interviewing....Read more
17 customers mention depth, 1 positive, 16 negative
Customers find the book lacks depth.
Comprehensive, but shallow.Read more
...There is no color. Pages are very thin and you can see through them.Read more
...It is not a particularly deep book, but it covers the basics pretty thoroughly....Read more
...The content is very shallow and mostly copied from free online materials....Read more
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