Learn how to design large scale systems.
Prep for the system design interview.
Learning how to design scalable systems will help you become a better engineer.
System design is a broad topic. There is a vast amount of resources scattered throughout the web on system design principles.
This repo is an organized collection of resources to help you learn how to build systems at scale.
This is an early draft of a continually updated, open source project.
Contributions are welcome!
In addition to coding interviews, system design is a required component of the technical interview process at many tech companies.
Practice common system design interview questions and compare your results with sample solutions: discussions, code, and diagrams.
Additional topics for interview prep:
- Study guide
- How to approach a system design interview question
- System design interview questions, with solutions
- Object-oriented design interview questions, with solutions
- Additional system design interview questions
The provided Anki flashcard decks use spaced repetition to help you retain key system design concepts.
Great for use while on-the-go.
Learn from the community.
Feel free to submit pull requests to help:
- Fix errors
- Improve sections
- Add new sections
Content that needs some polishing is placed under development.
Review the Contributing Guidelines.
Summaries of various system design topics, including pros and cons. Everything is a trade-off.
Each section contains links to more in-depth resources.
- System design topics: start here
- Performance vs scalability
- Latency vs throughput
- Availability vs consistency
- Consistency patterns
- Availability patterns
- Domain name system
- Content delivery network
- Load balancer
- Reverse proxy (web server)
- Application layer
- Database
- Cache
- Asynchronism
- Communication
- Security
- Appendix