Systems Design
Systems design interviews are becoming more and more prevalent and can indicate your ability to work with complex systems. Many engineers struggle with the systems design interviews as a result of their inexperience developing large-scale systems.
Today we’ll teach you some of the foundational elements of systems design so you can nail your next interview.
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Show Notes.
01:30 What is systems design
07:20 Key characteristics of a distributed system
13:24 Load balancing
17:48 Caching
31:05 Data partitioning
35:24 SQL vs. NoSQL
46:50 How to learn systems design
48:00 Shoutouts
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