System Design Interviews

Resources

Articles

• A Senior Engineer's Guide to the System Design Interview - interviewing.io

• Algorithms you should know before you take system designs interview - Alex Xu

• An Engineering Leader’s System Design Interview Template - Kevin Conroy

• Consistent Hashing Explained - SystemDesign.one

• Crack the System Design Interview - Tian Pan

• Load Balancing - Sam Rose

• Modern Hardware Numbers for System Design Interviews (2025) - Hello Interview

• Systems design for advanced beginners - Robert Heaton

• System Design Interview Cheat Sheet - SystemDesign.one

Blogs

• System Design In Practice - Tian Pan

Books

• Building Microservices - Sam Newman

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann

• Distributed systems for fun and profit - Mikito Takada

• Domain-Driven Design - Eric Evans

• Hacking the System Design Interview - Stanley Chiang

• Microservice Patterns and Best Practices - Victor Feitosa Pacheco

• System Design Interview: An Insider's Guide - Alex Xu

  • Notes by Preslav Mihaylov

  • Volume 1

  • Volume 2

• Web Scalability for Startup Engineers - Artur Ejsmont

Courses

• Grokking the System Design Interview - educative.io

• Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview - educative.io

GitHub Repositories

• Byte-sized System Design Concepts - ByteByteGo

• FAANG System Design

• Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

• System Design Cheatsheet

• System Design Course

• System Design Interview for IT companies

• System Design Interview Questions

• System Design Primer

Reddit Threads

• How I approach Systems Design Interviews

Videos

• How to Prepare for Technical Interviews, Part 2 - System Design - Engineering with Utsav

• Intro to Architecture and Systems Design Interviews - Jackson Gabbard

• System Design Interview: A Step-By-Step Guide - Alex Xu, ByteByteGo

• Want to Get Better at the System Design Interview? Start Here! - Engineering with Utsav

Websites

• High Scalability

• System Design

• SystemDesign.org

YouTube channels

• ByteByteGo

  • 20 System Design Concepts You Must Know - Final Part

  • How to Crack Any System Design Interview

  • System Design Was HARD - Until You Knew the Trade-Offs

  • System Design Was HARD - Until You Knew the Trade-Offs, Part 2

• Hello Interview

• Jordan has no life

• System Design Fight Club

• System Design Interview

YouTube playlists

• Algorithms You Should Know For System Design - ByteByteGo

• System Design - Gaurav Sen

• System Design Fundamentals - ByteByteGo

• System Design Interview - ByteByteGo