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System design interview study companion — Alex Xu volume 1
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Sixteen editable study canvases covering Alex Xu’s System Design Interview, volume 1. Read and download the first five chapters free. Unlock all chapters with a one-time purchase or annual membership. Each chapter covers requirements, estimates, architecture, APIs, design trade-offs, and operations. Symbols come from Blankpaper and the free System design symbols collection, with source credits on each canvas.
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17 resources- 01Canvas · Free sampleOpen
Scale from zero to millions
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Back-of-the-envelope estimation
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A framework for system design interviews
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Design a rate limiter
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Design consistent hashing
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Design a key-value store
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Design a distributed unique ID generator
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Design a URL shortener
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Design a web crawler
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Design a notification system
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Design a news feed system
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Design a chat system
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Design a search autocomplete system
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Design YouTube
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Design Google Drive
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The learning continues
- 17Component libraryView access
Blankpaper system symbols
The 19 symbols the chapter canvases are drawn with: clients, services, datastores, caches, object stores, queues, workers, policies, timers, identifiers, search, metrics and external services. Also part of the free System design symbols collection.