Preparing for the System Design Interviews
What you'll learn
- Students will get a good intro on key topics as well as how to approach a system design interview. The course covers real life case studies from frequently asked questions in interviews.
- How would you go about creating an Uber like App (Sample Question)
- Create an ecommerce app and scale it to millions of users (Sample Question)
- How would you create a website to sell movie tickets online ? Scale it to millions of users.
Requirements
- Good computer science knowledge. Some knowledge of advanced system design concepts like OOPS, caching, hashing, data partitioning, i will cover these in the course too.
Description
System design interviews are very common in big software firms. They are different from coding interviews or data structure and algorithm interviews but can be harder. They require a broad set of knowledge. Almost all the top software companies, be it google, amazon, uber have one or two rounds of system design interviews. After clearing the data structures and algorithm interviews if you do well in these system design interviews you can expect a very good offer from these firms.
This is a course to help students to prepare for system design interviews. It gives brief description on key topics and contains a case study. It is an actively developed course with more case studies and system design questions added frequently.
Some sample questions :
1. How would you go about designing an e-commerce website at scale ?
2. How would you go about designing the e-commerce website using microservices, how will you handle transactions ?
3. Design a chat messenger application like any famous chat messenger you have used ?
4. Create an autocomplete feature like word suggestions on search engines ? Scale it to millions of users ?
5. How would you go about creating a feed postings in a social network ?
Who this course is for:
- Anybody who wants to prepare for system design interview.
Course content
- Preview00:26
- Preview04:41
- Preview33:15
- 04:17CAP Theorem
- 24:43Handling your DATA
- 07:39Transaction on Data
- 13:58What goes in the Middleware layer ?
- 08:22Building the middleware layer using MicroServices.
- 07:26Building the front end layer (UI).
- 00:12Additional Resources
Instructor
![Rajat Mehta](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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I am highly experienced in big data technologies and enterprise software architectures. I have spent a considerable amount of time building financial software on Wall St, as well as pure product development with product companies like Oracle and Adobe. I have also written a book on big data analytics using machine learning and the book is available on amazon 'Big Data Analytics with Java'. Currently i am pursuing my passion for teaching and i like to teach in the areas i am interested in including AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, System Design, Web Development and regular programming using java, python, go and erlang.