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System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide (Volume 2)

This book can be seen as a sequel to the book: System Design Interview - An Insider’s Guide. It covers a different set of system design interview questions and solutions. Although reading Volume 1 is helpful, it is not required. This book should be accessible to readers who have a basic understanding of distributed systems.

This volume provides a reliable strategy and knowledge base for approaching a broad range of system design questions that you may encounter. It will help you feel confident during this important interview. This book provides a step-by-step framework for how to tackle a system design question. It also includes many real-world examples to illustrate a systematic approach, with detailed and well-explained steps you can follow.

What’s inside?
- An insider’s take on what interviewers really look for and why.
- A 4-step framework for solving any system design interview question.
- 13 real system design interview questions with detailed solutions.
- 300+ diagrams to visually explain how different systems work.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Proximity Service
Chapter 2: Nearby Friends
Chapter 3: Google Maps
Chapter 4: Distributed Message Queue
Chapter 5: Metrics Monitoring
Chapter 6: Ad Click Event Aggregation
Chapter 7: Hotel Reservation
Chapter 8: Distributed Email Service
Chapter 9: S3-like Object Storage
Chapter 10: Real-time Gaming Leaderboard
Chapter 11: Payment System
Chapter 12: Digital Wallet
Chapter 13: Stock Exchange

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March 11 2022
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Byte Code LLC (March 11 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1736049119
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736049112
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 500 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 2.49 x 25.4 cm

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Sahn Lam
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Sahn Lam is a software engineer with decades of experience in building scalable systems at high-growth companies like Discord, Zynga, and NetApp. Twitter: @sahnlam
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Alex Xu is an experienced software engineer and entrepreneur. Previously, he worked at Twitter, Apple and Zynga. He can be found online at linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-xu-a8131b11/) and twitter (@alexxubyte)
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Sang Min Kim

Not happy with the book quality but very happy with content quality

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 29, 2022

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The book quality is kinda meh. Especially, there's this weird purple gradient thing printed between pages. I mean all pages. However, we all know we shouldn't be judging a book by its cover. The content is great and very useful.

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Sheila

Must have for system design

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 24, 2022

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Classical book for modern distributed system design, love it!

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Jiny

Interesting read, topics are too wide and descriptions are shallow

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 28, 2022

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It's fun to read about how all the services work together. There are definitely a lot of concepts I have never heard of, and I even doubt they will come up in interviews. So the title of the book is definitely for marketing purposes. A more fitting title would be something like, A General Look at Cloud Services.

The texts are very large, and a lot of it is repetitive. There are a few graphs and diagrams (that take up a good chunk of the page) that could be left out and no information would have been lost.

It's a little sparse for the price, which is getting closer to textbooks but doesn't contain the same level of information.

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hitarth

Informative, indepth understanding

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 28, 2022

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Really nice extension to the first part. Very informative and indepth designs. I would highly recommend to read this. Just cutting one star as received a few pages torn.

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Patrick

Amazing book, missing digital version

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 26, 2022

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Amazingly well written book, but lacks digital version for note taking and preservability.

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Print in black and white

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 16, 2022

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Preview is in color, but the real book is black and white.
It will be better for the diagrams to be printed in color.

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M

Great structure great content and enjoyful to read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 25, 2022

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Well written with clear high level architecture and all the necessary details. Not just good for interviews but also enjoy reading it to learn how various systems are designed

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Marc Sakalauskas

Fast shipping. Great book for interviews!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 19, 2022

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The first book was incredible and helped me prepare for tech interviews. Looking forward to reading this 2nd volume to continue on interview prep

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David John

Fake version. Don't buy

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on August 26, 2022

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The book cover has the original author's name and book title but the pages are a pirated version of Lewis C Lin's book. Do not buy. The original book is not available in India yet.

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Aneel

The print and paper quality is pretty bad

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on September 4, 2022

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The print and paper quality is pretty bad. It feels like a photocopy and not a book.

most of the tables in the book are not legible at all.

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J.S.R.

Great case studies, not so great for interview prep

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 8, 2022

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This book has a lot of amazingly detailed case studies of big scale systems. However, the detail each goes into is immense and I doubt you'll ever need this level of info for interviews, even at staff level. It can be overwhelming even, and won't give you a good feel for what is expected in an interview. I think it's worth going through if you have a lot of time, similar to DDIA, and for a bank of practice questions. If your time is more limited, than the classic grokking the design interview is probably a better value.

CSAY

Very useful for system design interviews notably at FAANGs

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 9, 2022

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This book and the second edition did help me out. There were some patterns that I learned and allowed me to answer questions from a system design interview at Google and also at other companies. Strongly recommend.

Romil Punetha

The coverage of this book is really good.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 17, 2022

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This book is far better than vol-1. Vol-1 is more beginner friendly, with some concepts before you begin the design. This is more advanced version and is better suited for experienced people.

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