Systems design interviews are becoming more and more prevalent and can indicate your ability to work with complex systems. Many engineers struggle with the systems design interviews as a result of their inexperience developing large-scale systems.

Today we’ll teach you some of the foundational elements of systems design so you can nail your next interview.

Show Notes * 01:30 What is systems design * 07:20 Key characteristics of a distributed system * 13:24 Load balancing * 17:48 Caching * 31:05 Data partitioning * 35:24 SQL vs. NoSQL * 46:50 How to learn systems design * 48:00 Shoutouts

Resources * Educative.io course * Free Code Camp article * Algo Expert Course * Tobias VanSchneider * Dev April Fools * How Stack Overflow Caches

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