Notes on System Design

Warning: All materials are prepared for Facebook onsite interview but I failed.


Case Study:

• Netflix (mysterious)
• Learning a Personalized Homepage – Netflix TechBlog – Medium (2015): Article
• The Netflix Recommender System: Algorithms, Business Value, and Innovation (2016): Paper
• Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS — Over a million writes per second (2011): Article
• A Multi-Armed Bandit Framework for Recommendations at Netflix | DataEngConf SF '18 (2018): YouTube
• Google
• Building Software Systems at Google and Lessons Learned (2010): Slide | YouTube
• Google Production Environment (2018): YouTube
• The Google File System - Research (2003): Paper
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters (2004): Paper
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data (2006): Paper
• Differential Synchronization (2009): Paper | YouTube
• The Paxos Algorithm (2018): YouTube
• Yahoo
• The Hadoop Distributed File System (2010): Paper
• Analyzing Google File System and Hadoop Distributed File System (2016): Article 
• Youtube
• Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations (2016): Paper
• RecSys 2016: Paper Session 6 - Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations (2016): YouTube
• Facebook
• Balancing Multi-Tenancy and Isolation at 4 Billion QPS (2015): YouTube
• TAO: Facebook's Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph - Usenix (2013): Paper
• Finding a needle in Haystack: Facebook's photo storage - Usenix (2010): Paper
• Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System (2009): Paper
• Instagram
• Scaling Instagram (QCon London 2017): YouTube
• Amazon
• Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store (2007): Paper
• Slack
• How Slack Works (QCon San Francisco 2016): YouTube
• Uber
• Project Mezzanine: The Great Migration (2015): Article
• Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Scalable Datastore Using MySQL (2016): Article Part 1 & Part2 & Part3
• The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation (2016): Article
• The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part II: The Edge and Beyond (2016): Article
• How Uber Scales Their Real-Time Market Platform (2015): Article

Interview Practices:

• URL shortener system design | tinyurl system design | bitly system design (2018): YouTube
• NETFLIX System design | software architecture for netflix (2018): YouTube
• UBER System design | OLA system design | uber architecture | amazon interview question (2018): YouTube
• Twitter system design | twitter Software architecture | twitter interview questions (2018): YouTube
• Whatsapp System design or software architecture (2018): YouTube