
Software Engineers Wes Moncrief and Kevin Li discuss aspects of the system design interview, as well as related topics in designing large and interesting software architectures. If you're new here, I'd suggest starting with the episode "Facebook Timeline Interview". I'll also note that our first few episodes had lower quality audio than our subsequent episodes.We'd love to hear any listener feedba... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 6 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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Kevin asks Wes to design Dropbox, with an emphasis on designing the data model and storage techniques to scale out.
Helpful links:
www.geeksforgeeks.org/design-dropbox-a-system-design-interview-question/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4g... more
As Kevin prepares to start a new job at Instacart, he explains some ideas around how a company like Instacart could employ caching to improve the scalability of their services.
Show notes:
Wes and Kevin talk about message queues, the problems they solve, and how they work.
github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer
highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/
www.rabbitmq.com/tutoria... more
Breaking away from the interview format, Wes and Kevin deep dive into SQL vs noSQL databases.
Show notes:
ACID compliance - mariadb.com/resources/blog/acid-compliance-what-it-means-and-why-you-should-care
CAP theorem
www.ibm.com/c... more
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I listen to this podcast everyday in the bus on my way to the office. Good content. I wish you could release an episode more often
Love this series. Hope more content gets added and more frequently. Probably worth bringing more engineers so we can get different perspectives.
Content is great. However i usually don’t write a review but i wanted to write here one.
Kevin : has a very articulate and flawless voice.
Wes: sorry to say but voice is bit slurry and felt like very casual even if he is playing the part of interviewee, i can understand the solution is jot readymade and it’s more of a discussion between two parties.
I have to say i had to rewind my podcast and put focus when wes’s start speaking. I am not sure if it’s due to the mic adjustment or if it can be c... more
I am preparing for system design interviews and was lost in plethora of information available but no one tells how to structure the response. This podcast is helping me with that including having to server lots of additional value. However, I'd love to see more episodes.
I'm a new SDE and really appreciated this episode. Thank you for giving me clarity to the design process.
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