Systems Design

Systems design interviews are becoming more and more prevalent and can indicate your ability to work with complex systems. Many engineers struggle with the systems design interviews as a result of their inexperience developing large-scale systems.

Today we’ll teach you some of the foundational elements of systems design so you can nail your next interview.

Show Notes

• 01:30 What is systems design
• 07:20 Key characteristics of a distributed system
• 13:24 Load balancing
• 17:48 Caching
• 31:05 Data partitioning
• 35:24 SQL vs. NoSQL
• 46:50 How to learn systems design
• 48:00 Shoutouts

Resources

• Educative.io course
• Free Code Camp article
• Algo Expert Course
• Tobias VanSchneider
• Dev April Fools
• How Stack Overflow Caches

Transcript

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