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🚀 Awesome Resources For Learning About System Design ⚡

Here are some awesome resources to quickly learn about System Design:

1. Github:

  • "System Design Primer": A popular repository covering system design basics with real-world examples. Link
  • "System Design 101": Explain complex systems using visuals and simple terms. Help you prepare for system design interviews. Link
  • "System Design" by Karan Pratap Singh: How to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews. Link

2. Courses:

  • Mastering the System Design Interview: Insider tips for your system design interview from a former Amazon hiring manager – plus 6 mock interviews for practice!. Link
  • Software Architecture & Design of Modern Large Scale Systems: Become a Software Architect or Technical Lead by Mastering Software Architecture, System Design & Big Data Processing. Link
  • Software Architecture & Technology of Large-Scale Systems: Learn Architecting Software Systems with High Performance, Scalability, Availability, Security using Modern Technologies Link
  • System Design Simplified: This is a detailed walkthrough of the system design course at InterviewReady. If you are looking to prepare for interviews, this walkthrough will help. Link
  • Grokking the Modern System Design Interview: The ultimate guide to the System Design Interview – developed by Meta & Google engineers. Master distributed system fundamentals, and practice with real-world interview questions & mock interviews. Link
  • Grokking System Design Fundamentals: Learn system design essentials required for designing scalable and high-performance systems. Link
  • Grokking the System Design Interview: Learn how to prepare for system design interviews and practice common system design interview questions. Link

3. Books:

  • "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann: A deeper dive into data storage, databases, and scalability. Link
  • "Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems" by Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, and Jennifer Petoff Authored by Google engineers, this book dives deep into running reliable, large-scale systems in production, discussing monitoring, incident response, and post-mortems.
  • "The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise" by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher Known for its three-part framework (people, process, and technology), this book helps design scalable systems while managing team and process requirements.
  • "Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems" by Sam Newman This book is popular for understanding microservices architecture, covering design, communication, and scaling of microservices.
  • "System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide" by Alex Xu Tailored for interview preparation, this book provides frameworks and examples of how to approach system design questions, including designing services like Instagram and URL shorteners.

4. YouTube Channels:

  • Gaurav Sen for system design explanations. Link
  • Tech Dummies for visual, scenario-based examples. These cover essential topics from scalability to load balancing and databases. Link

These cover essential topics from scalability to load balancing and databases.

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