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System Design

by Wes and Kevin
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About the show

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

Latest episodes

  • Dropbox Interview

    February 28, 2021 · 33 min

    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…

  • Distributed Caches

    February 14, 2021 · 26 min

    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/datadriven…

  • Message Queues

    December 6, 2020 · 31 min

    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…

  • SQL vs noSQL Databases

    October 17, 2020 · 30 min

    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…

  • Facebook Timeline Interview

    September 16, 2020 · 34 min

    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…

  • Google Docs Interview

    September 15, 2020 · 44 min

    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…