System Design: A Brand New Step By Step Guide for Interview

System Design, Stages of Typical System Design Interview, High Level Design, Detailed Design. And Many More!

What you’ll learn

Google Interview Question for Software Engineers!
Stages of a typical system design interview
Functional Requirements (API)
Non-Functional Requirements to consider: scalability, performance, availability, consistency, cost.
Data ingestion pipeline concepts: blocking vs non-blocking I/O, buffering and batching, timeouts, retries, exponential backoff and jitter, circuit breaker pattern, software vs hardware load balancing, load balancing algorithms, DNS, health checking and high availability of load balancers, partition strategy, hot partitions, client-side and server-side service discovery, single leader replication and leaderless replication, textual vs binary data formats.
Types of performance testing: load testing, stress testing, soak testing.
High-Level Design
Detailed Design
Data retrieval pipeline concepts: time-series data, data rollup, hot storage, cold storage.
Bottlenecks and Tradeoffs
Where we store Data
NoSQL databse
Data Processing
Important Features of Database writer
3 Components of the data ingestion Path
Data retrial Path
Technology stack
How to define a data model
How to scale a SQL database
Why requirements clarification is so important.
Apache Cassandra high-level architecture.
System Design