System Design
This page provides an introduction to System Design.
Overview
General template of how much time you should spend on each topic during system design interview
| Topic | Time |
|---|---|
| Requirement | 5 Minutes |
| Functional requirement | 5 Minutes |
| Scalability | |
| Availability | |
| Latency | |
| Durability | |
| Read/Write ratio | |
| Back of the envelope calculations | 3 Minutes |
| DAU | |
| QPS/Peak QPS | |
| Storage | |
| Cache | |
| Number of Servers | |
| Bandwidth | |
| APIs | 2 Minutes |
| High level design | 10 Minutes |
| Data Model | 10 Minutes |
| Database Schema | |
| Database Storage | |
| Partitioning & Replication | 5 Minutes |
| Caching | 2 Minutes |
| Analytics & GDPR | 3 Minutes |
Problem Set
Rate Limiter- Key Value Pair
- Live Comment
- Privacy Filter With Custom Visibility
- Uber
- Twitter Feed/Facebook Feed/Instragram Feed
- Dropbox/Google Drive
- Google Docs/Collaborative Editing
- YouTube
- Messenger Chat App
- Mutual Friends
- Metrics/Monitoring & Alerting System
- Ad-tracking Service/ad Clicks events aggregation system
- Nearby Friends / Proxmity Service
- TicketMaster
- LeaderBoard
- WebCrawler
- Price Tracking
- Job Scheduler
- Google Map
- Google Pay / Digital Wallet
- Coding Platform
- Google Typeahead / Twitter Search
- Google Calendar
- Amazon/Inventory Management