System Design

By: Wes and Kevin
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  • Software Engineers Wes Moncrief and Kevin Li discuss aspects of the system design interview, as well as related topics in designing large and interesting software architectures. If you're new here, I'd suggest starting with the episode "Facebook Timeline Interview". I'll also note that our first few episodes had lower quality audio than our subsequent episodes.We'd love to hear any listener feedback - email us at thesystemdesignpodcast@gmail.com
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Episodes
  • Dropbox Interview
    Feb 28 2021

    Kevin asks Wes to design Dropbox, with an emphasis on designing the data model and storage techniques to scale out.

    Helpful links:
    https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/design-dropbox-a-system-design-interview-question/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_API

    https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/object-storage

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    33 mins
  • Distributed Caches
    Feb 14 2021

    As Kevin prepares to start a new job at Instacart, he explains some ideas around how a company like Instacart could employ caching to improve the scalability of their services.

    Show notes:

    https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/all-things-caching-use-cases-benefits-strategies-choosing-a-caching-technology-exploring-fa6c1f2e93aa

    https://ieftimov.com/post/when-why-least-frequently-used-cache-implementation-golang/

    https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer#cache

    https://memcached.org/  

    https://redis.io/

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    26 mins
  • Message Queues
    Dec 6 2020

    Wes and Kevin talk about message queues, the problems they solve, and how they work. 

    https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

    http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/

    https://netflixtechblog.com/

    https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-one-python.html


    P.S., Wes learned how to edit podcasts better thanks to this guide - https://podigy.co/podcast-editing-guide/, hopefully this podcast has the best audio quality yet!

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    31 mins

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as a prior DBA the nosql vs rdbms was great

well done. useful overviews to help improve my system design chops. nice work and thanks for sharing.

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Very cool

I'm a new SDE and really appreciated this episode. Thank you for giving me clarity to the design process.

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So Informative!

Thanks for explaining this so clearly, it makes a lot more sense now for me!

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