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

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#1 Book Pick for System Design Interviews by Five Books in 2022.

This book provides an in-depth look at how to excel in the system design interview. Written by a software engineer at Google, it contains real interview questions based on hundreds of big tech interviews, along with their comprehensive solutions. The book offers clear and engaging lessons on software and system fundamentals distilled from over 15 years of experience.

The book is a comprehensive guide to learning about systems and building a solid foundation for your interview. It provides an insider view of the big tech interview process and proven techniques that will help you succeed in your interview.

With the book’s systematic approach, you can tackle any system design question by studying step-by-step solutions to real system design interview questions. The book covers recurring components, the building blocks of systems, such as web servers, API gateways, load balancers, distributed caches, asynchronous queues, object storage, CDNs, fan-out services, unique ID generators, and more.

You will also learn:

• How to design systems using recurring components to build complex and scalable systems.
• The fundamentals of software systems such as servers, services, machines, applications, components, and modules.
• Patterns in service design, including microservices vs. monolith, orchestration vs. choreography, loose coupling, and high cohesion.
• Database concepts such as data modeling, relational vs. NoSQL, denormalization, replication, and consistency.
• Distributed system principles such as integration, networking protocols, REST vs. RPC, and CAP theorem.

The book also includes sample designs of real distributed and large-scale systems for common scenarios such as newsfeed and timeline, rideshare application, social network graph search algorithm, track the most frequently accessed items, autocomplete system, distributed message queue, and more.

Hacking the System Design Interview will prepare you for success in your next tech interview. Get the book today and land your dream job tomorrow.

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