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Acing the System Design Interview
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Acing the System Design Interview

by zhiyong tan
January 2024
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
15h 11m
English
Manning Publications
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17 Design a dashboard of top 10 products on Amazon by sales volume

This chapter covers

  • Scaling an aggregation operation on a large data stream
  • Using a Lambda architecture for fast approximate results and slow accurate results
  • Using Kappa architecture as an alternative to Lambda architecture
  • Approximating an aggregation operation for faster speed

Analytics is a common discussion topic in a system design interview. We will always log certain network requests and user interactions, and we will perform analytics based on the data we collect.

The Top K Problem (Heavy Hitters) is a common type of dashboard. Based on the popularity or lack thereof of certain products, we can make decisions to promote or discontinue them. Such decisions may not be ...

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