System Design Interview: An Insider's Guide – 2 Volume Set (Full Colour Edition)

System Design Interview: An Insider's Guide – 2 Volume Set (Full Colour Edition) by Alex Xu and Sahn Lam teaches software engineers how to handle system design questions in job interviews. Volume one builds the foundations and the skill of solving design problems. Volume two moves on to more advanced architectures, newer patterns and case studies from top tech firms. Along the way it covers scaling, dependability, speed, microservices, caching, load balancing and splitting up databases. Practical examples and detailed illustrations keep the material approachable.

Why You Should Read?

• Learn how to balance scalability, reliability and speed when you plan the design of a system.
• Understand how distributed systems and microservices work, and how caching, load balancing and database partitioning fit in.
• Follow the case studies in volume two, taken from top tech firms, to see real design problems solved.
• Gain a complete roadmap for interview preparation, whatever your level of experience as an engineer.