Hacking the System Design Interview: Real Big Tech Interview Questions and In-depth Solutions

I finally got my hands on another book about system design interviews. This time it’s a book by Stanley Chiang, who works at Google. According to legend, he took notes in preparation for this type of interview and then turned them into a book that sells well, according to Amazon. The book itself consists of several parts: The system design interview – a brief intro about this type of interview and how to use the book to prepare for it Essential concepts - basic terminology, basic principles for service design, concepts from databases, network fundamentals, issues of service integration among themselves, concepts from the world of distributed systems and principles of testing Core components - basic components such as: web servers, cache, object storage, CDN, read/write API approach, fan-out services, generation of unique id and the basics of big data and map reduce

• System design questions - here the author tells about his 7a step-by-step approach to solving system design problems, how to make an approximate assessment, draw diagrams and navigate questions to tasks, and then leads to 16 Interesting tasks that would be nice to solve in order to fill your hand

In general, I found this book more interesting than Alex Xu's System Design Interview, which I described in Medium articles: 1 and 2

P.S. I read this book in the wake of another public System Design Interview this Thursday. told A few weeks ago.

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