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System Design

Wes and Kevin

Technology

Frequency: 1 episode/33d. Total Eps: 6

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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http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/
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https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-one-python.html
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Dropbox Interview

Sunday, February 28, 2021 • Duration 32:40

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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Distributed Caches

Sunday, February 14, 2021 • Duration 26:05

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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Message Queues

Sunday, December 6, 2020 • Duration 31:07

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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SQL vs noSQL Databases

Episode 3

Saturday, October 17, 2020 • Duration 30:14

Breaking away from the interview format, Wes and Kevin deep dive into SQL vs noSQL databases.

Show notes:

ACID compliance - https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/acid-compliance-what-it-means-and-why-you-should-care

CAP theorem
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/cap-theorem
https://mwhittaker.github.io/blog/an_illustrated_proof_of_the_cap_theorem
Cool article explaining the problem with saying you can have 2 out of 3 properties of CAP
http://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-databases-cp-or-ap.html

MongoDB - https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/introduction/

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Facebook Timeline Interview

Episode 2

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 • Duration 34:24

Wes asks Kevin to design the Facebook/Twitter Timeline with an emphasis on scaling to a large number of users.

I'd encourage you to pause where relevant to try to think through these designs yourself - it really helps the content sink in.

Helpful Links

RabbitMQ quick start documentation - https://www.rabbitmq.com/getstarted.html

Apache Kafka introductinon - https://kafka.apache.org/intro

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Google Docs Interview

Episode 1

Tuesday, September 15, 2020 • Duration 43:47

In our first episode, Kevin gives Wes a mock interview on how to design google docs.

Helpful links

The git storage technique we referenced is described in detail here - https://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-pt-1 (Note that this is not git, but the same technique applies)

Website with algorithm for merge conflict resolution - https://operational-transformation.github.io/

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