2 A typical system design interview flow
This chapter covers
- Clarifying system requirements and optimizing possible tradeoffs
- Drafting your system’s API specification
- Designing the data models of your system
- Discussing concerns like logging, monitoring, and alerting or search
- Reflecting on your interview experience and evaluating the company
In this chapter, we will discuss a few principles of system design interviews that must be followed during your 1 hour system design interview. When you complete this book, refer to this list again. Keep these principles in mind during your interviews:
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Clarify functional and non-functional requirements (refer to chapter 3), such as QPS (queries per second) and P99 latency. Ask whether the interviewer ...
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