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title: System Design
description: Notes for system design interviews — how to scope a problem, size it, and pick the parts that carry the load.
description: "Notes on System Design Interview — An Insider's Guide (Volumes 1 and 2): how to scope a problem, size it, and pick the parts that carry the load."
icon: network
sidebar:
label: Overview
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These notes follow Alex Xu's [System Design Interview — An Insider's Guide](https://bytebytego.com/courses/system-design-interview), [Volumes 1 and 2](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54109255-system-design-interview-an-insider-s-guide).
:::note
These notes are a work in progress.
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## How an interview runs
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Take the hardest part (a hot key, fan-out, a consistency guarantee) and work through its tradeoffs.
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</Steps>
## Foundations
<CardGroup cols={3}>
<Card title="Scaling" href="/system-design/scaling" icon="trending-up">
From one server to millions of users.
</Card>
<Card title="Estimation" href="/system-design/back-of-the-envelope-estimation" icon="calculator">
Back-of-the-envelope QPS and storage.
</Card>
<Card title="Interview Framework" href="/system-design/interview-framework" icon="list-checks">
The four steps of the interview.
</Card>
</CardGroup>
## Core designs
<CardGroup cols={3}>
<Card title="Rate Limiter" href="/system-design/rate-limiter" icon="gauge">
Token and leaking buckets, windows.
</Card>
<Card title="Consistent Hashing" href="/system-design/consistent-hashing" icon="orbit">
Hash rings and virtual nodes.
</Card>
<Card title="Key-Value Store" href="/system-design/key-value-store" icon="database">
Quorums, vector clocks, gossip.
</Card>
<Card title="Unique ID Generator" href="/system-design/unique-id-generator" icon="fingerprint">
Snowflake and its alternatives.
</Card>
<Card title="URL Shortener" href="/system-design/url-shortener" icon="link">
Base 62 and redirects.
</Card>
<Card title="Web Crawler" href="/system-design/web-crawler" icon="bug">
The URL frontier and politeness.
</Card>
<Card title="Notification System" href="/system-design/notification-system" icon="bell">
Push, SMS and email at scale.
</Card>
<Card title="News Feed System" href="/system-design/news-feed-system" icon="newspaper">
Fanout on write and on read.
</Card>
<Card title="Chat System" href="/system-design/chat-system" icon="message-circle">
WebSockets and presence.
</Card>
<Card title="Search Autocomplete" href="/system-design/search-autocomplete" icon="text-cursor-input">
Tries and top-k prefixes.
</Card>
<Card title="YouTube" href="/system-design/youtube" icon="video">
Upload, transcode, stream.
</Card>
<Card title="Google Drive" href="/system-design/google-drive" icon="hard-drive">
Block storage and sync.
</Card>
</CardGroup>
## Advanced designs
<CardGroup cols={3}>
<Card title="Proximity Service" href="/system-design/proximity-service" icon="map-pin">
Geohash, quadtrees, S2.
</Card>
<Card title="Nearby Friends" href="/system-design/nearby-friends" icon="users">
Live locations over pub/sub.
</Card>
<Card title="Google Maps" href="/system-design/google-maps" icon="map">
Tiles, routing and ETAs.
</Card>
<Card title="Distributed Message Queue" href="/system-design/distributed-message-queue" icon="send">
Partitions and consumer groups.
</Card>
<Card title="Metrics Monitoring" href="/system-design/metrics-monitoring" icon="activity">
Time series and alerting.
</Card>
<Card title="Ad Click Aggregation" href="/system-design/ad-click-event-aggregation" icon="mouse-pointer-click">
Exactly-once stream counts.
</Card>
<Card title="Hotel Reservation" href="/system-design/hotel-reservation-system" icon="bed">
Inventory without double booking.
</Card>
<Card title="Email Service" href="/system-design/distributed-email-service" icon="mail">
Mail storage and search.
</Card>
<Card title="S3-like Object Storage" href="/system-design/s3-object-storage" icon="archive">
Erasure coding and metadata.
</Card>
<Card title="Gaming Leaderboard" href="/system-design/gaming-leaderboard" icon="trophy">
Redis sorted sets.
</Card>
<Card title="Payment System" href="/system-design/payment-system" icon="credit-card">
Ledgers and reconciliation.
</Card>
<Card title="Digital Wallet" href="/system-design/digital-wallet" icon="wallet">
Distributed transactions, event sourcing.
</Card>
<Card title="Stock Exchange" href="/system-design/stock-exchange" icon="chart-candlestick">
Order books and sequencers.
</Card>
</CardGroup>