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System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2
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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 Contents
Chapter 1: Proximity Service
Chapter 2: Nearby Friends
Chapter 3: Google Maps
Chapter 4: Distributed Message Queue
Chapter 5: Metrics Monitoring
Chapter 6: Ad Click Event Aggregation
Chapter 7: Hotel Reservation
Chapter 8: Distributed Email Service
Chapter 9: S3-like Object Storage
Chapter 10: Real-time Gaming Leaderboard
Chapter 11: Payment System
Chapter 12: Digital Wallet
Chapter 13: Stock Exchange
- ISBN-101736049119
- ISBN-13978-1736049112
- Publication dateMarch 11, 2022
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7 x 0.98 x 10 inches
- Print length434 pages
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Product details
- Publisher : Byte Code LLC
- Publication date : March 11, 2022
- Language : English
- Print length : 434 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1736049119
- ISBN-13 : 978-1736049112
- Item Weight : 1.66 pounds
- Dimensions : 7 x 0.98 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #11,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the authors

Sahn Lam is a software engineer with decades of experience in building scalable systems at high-growth companies like Discord, Zynga, and NetApp. Twitter: @sahnlam

Alex Xu is an experienced software engineer and entrepreneur. Previously, he worked at Twitter, Apple and Zynga. He can be found online at LinkedIn and twitter (@alexxubyte)




















