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System Design Interview
Alex Xu
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System design interviews reward a repeatable method: scope the problem, estimate scale, sketch the high-level design, then deep-dive and discuss tradeoffs.
A step-by-step framework for the system-design interview, worked through on classic problems: URL shortener, news feed, chat, rate limiter, search autocomplete, and more.
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