System Design Interview Essentials A–Z: A Silicon Valley Insider's Guide

by X. Fang

Today the system design interview is the dividing line between junior, senior, and staff+ engineering candidates, and even between frontline managers, senior managers, and directors. Candidates for the highest engineering roles must have a solid command of modern system design, and even candidates for higher-level management must be able to demonstrate a grasp of it.

This book is designed around the key concepts one needs to be familiar with before walking into a system design interview. Each chapter uses real-world examples to establish a mnemonic concept designed to aid one's recall in the stressful interview environment.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. S is for Sharding
Chapter 2. L is for Load-Balancing
Chapter 3. C is for Consistent Hashing
Chapter 4. R is for Replication
Chapter 5. Q is for Quorum
Chapter 6. O is for Order-of-Magnitude Estimation
Chapter 7. M is for Merkle Trees
Chapter 8. A is for Availability
Chapter 9. G is for GeoHashing
Chapter 10. P is for PN-Counter
Chapter 11. N is for NoSQL
Chapter 12. D is for Distributed Consensus
Chapter 13. Z is for ZooKeeper
Chapter 14. F is for Fault Tolerance
Chapter 15. K is for Kafka
Chapter 16. U is for UUID
Chapter 17. H is for HTTP
Chapter 18. I is for Idempotence
Chapter 19. E is for Event Sourcing
Chapter 20. T is for Transactions
Chapter 21. W is for WebSockets
Chapter 22. B is for Bloom Filter

302 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2024

About the author

Hello! I’m X. Fang. I am a visual artist and maker of books for young readers. I was born in Taiwan, raised in Atlanta, Georgia, bounced around Brooklyn and Philly before settling down in Midcoast Maine with my husband, son, and dog.