System Design Repository

All things System Design. Books, Blog Posts, Interview questions, e.t.c

Table Of Contents

• Books
• Blog Posts
• Company Engineering Blogs
• Courses And Tutorials
• Interview Questions
• YouTube

Books

• Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Designing Distributed Systems by Brendan Burns
• System Design Interview by Alex Xu

Blog Posts

• Scalability for Dummies
• Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems
• Introduction to architecting systems for scale
• System design interview questions - Concepts you should know

Company Engineering Blogs

• High Scalability
• The GitHub Blog
• Engineering at Quora
• Yelp Engineering Blog
• Twitter Engineering
• Facebook Engineering
• Yammer Engineering
• Etsy Code as Craft
• Foursquare Engineering Blog
• Airbnb Engineering
• WebEngage Engineering Blog
• LinkedIn Engineering
• The Netflix Tech Blog
• BankSimple Simple Blog
• Square The Corner
• SoundCloud Backstage Blog
• Flickr Code
• Instagram Engineering
• Dropbox Tech Blog
• Cloudera Developer Blog
• Bandcamp Tech
• Oyster Tech Blog
• THE REDDIT BLOG
• Groupon Engineering Blog
• Songkick Technology Blog
• Google Research Blog
• Pinterest Engineering Blog
• Twilio Engineering Blog
• Bitly Engineering Blog
• Uber Engineering Blog
• Godaddy Engineering
• Splunk Blog
• Coursera Engineering Blog
• PayPal Engineering Blog
• Nextdoor Engineering Blog
• Booking.com Development Blog
• Scalyr Engineering Blog
• Grammarly Engineering Blog
• Intercom Engineering Blog
• Slack Engineering Blog
• Stripe Engineering Blog

Courses And Tutorials

• Grokking the System Design Interview
• Algoexpert.io
• Hired In Tech
• System Design Tutorial

Interview Questions

Design a CDN network

• Globally Distributed Content Delivery

Design a Google document system

• google-mobwrite
• Differential Synchronization

Design a random ID generation system Reference:

• Announcing Snowflake
• snowflake

Design a key-value database Reference:

• Introduction to Redis

Design the Facebook news feed function Reference:

• What are best practices for building something like a News Feed?
• What are the scaling issues to keep in mind while developing a social network feed?
• Activity Feeds Architecture

Design the Facebook timeline function Reference:

• Building Timeline
• Facebook Timeline

Design a function to return the top k requests during past time interval

• Efficient Computation of Frequent and Top-k Elements in Data Streams
• An Optimal Strategy for Monitoring Top-k Queries in Streaming Windows

Design an online multiplayer card game

• How to Create an Asynchronous Multiplayer Game
• How to Create an Asynchronous Multiplayer Game Part 2: Saving the Game State to Online Database
• How to Create an Asynchronous Multiplayer Game Part 3: Loading Games from the Database
• How to Create an Asynchronous Multiplayer Game Part 4: Matchmaking
• Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5

Design a graph search function

• Building out the infrastructure for Graph Search
• Indexing and ranking in Graph Search
• The natural language interface of Graph Search and Erlang at Facebook

Design a picture sharing system

• Flickr Architecture
• Instagram Architecture

Design a search engine

• How would you implement Google Search?
• Implementing Search Engines

Design a recommendation system

• Hulu’s Recommendation System
• Recommender Systems

Design a tinyurl system

• System Design for Big Data-tinyurl
• URL Shortener API

Design a garbage collection system

• Baby's First Garbage Collector

Design a scalable web crawling system

• How can I build a web crawler from scratch?

Design the Facebook chat function

• Erlang at Facebook
• Facebook Chat

Design a trending topic system

• Implementing Real-Time Trending Topics With a Distributed Rolling Count Algorithm in Storm
• Early detection of Twitter trends explained

Design a cache system

• Introduction to Memcached

YouTube

Channels

• Gaurav Sen
• Hussein Nasser

Videos

• System Design Mock Interview: Design Instagram
• Google Systems Design Interview With An Ex-Googler
• Amazon System Design Interview: Design Parking Garage

Credits

• Company Engineering Blogs from checkcheckzz
• Initial post of interview questions from checkcheckzz