System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide

System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide (Volume 2)

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