Ace the toughest system design interview questions and land the job and salary you want!
For software engineers, software architects, and engineering managers looking to advance their careers.
Acing the System Design Interview tackles the hardest part of the software engineering hiring process - the system design interview. Never fear! In this book, Zhiyong Tan reveals his unique system design interview techniques that have earned him job offers from Amazon, Apple, PayPal, and Uber.
The book goes well beyond typical soft skills. You will master a structured and organised approach to present system design ideas like:
- Scaling databases to support heavy traffic
- Distributed transactions techniques to ensure data consistency
- Services for functional partitioning such as API gateway, service mesh, and metadata
- Common API paradigms including REST, RPC, and GraphQL
- Caching strategies, including their tradeoffs
