System Design ​

Notes ​

• Systems design interview tips:
  • 🧐 Verify assumptions (use case, # of users, data storage etc)
  • 👌Start with a simple architecture
  • ⏳Identify bottlenecks & verify which ones to address next
  • 🔄Iterate on the design
  • 🛠Go down the rabbithole, to specific technologies & how they work

Links ​

• System Design Primer - Learn how to design large-scale systems. (HN) (HN)
• What changes when you go offline-first? (2018)
• Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know? (2019)
• Systems Thinking Speech by Dr. Russell Ackoff
• Going Critical (2019) (HN)
• Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows (2019) (Lobsters)
• Why Complexity is Different (2017)
• Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming
• System Design Cheatsheet
• System Design Preparation - Preparation links and resources for system design questions.