From 074d5d2cb5cb7dfa42b7ff69ecddc3048b3d9ddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Donne Martin Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 05:03:46 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add Additional system design interview questions section --- README.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3a96c5e5..08b26180 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -343,3 +343,32 @@ Check out the following links to get a better idea of what to expect: | Design a chat server | [Solution](https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer/blob/master/solutions/object_oriented_design/chat_server/chat_server.ipynb) | | Design a circular array | [Contribute](#contributing) | | Add an object-oriented design question | [Contribute](#contributing) | + +## Additional system design interview questions + +> Common system design interview questions, with links to resources on how to solve each. + +| Question | Reference(s) | +|---|---| +| Design a file sync service like Dropbox | [youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc) | +| Design a search engine like Google | [queue.acm.org](http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=988407)
[stackexchange.com](http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/38324/interview-question-how-would-you-implement-google-search)
[ardendertat.com](http://www.ardendertat.com/2012/01/11/implementing-search-engines/)
[stanford.edu](http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html) | +| Design a scalable web crawler like Google | [quora.com](https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-build-a-web-crawler-from-scratch) | +| Design Google docs | [code.google.com](https://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/)
[neil.fraser.name](https://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/) | +| Design a key-value store like Redis | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/dvirsky/introduction-to-redis) | +| Design a cache system like Memcached | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/oemebamo/introduction-to-memcached) | +| Design a recommendation system like Amazon's | [hulu.com](http://tech.hulu.com/blog/2011/09/19/recommendation-system.html)
[ijcai13.org](http://ijcai13.org/files/tutorial_slides/td3.pdf) | +| Design a tinyurl system like Bitly | [n00tc0d3r.blogspot.com](http://n00tc0d3r.blogspot.com/) | +| Design a chat app like WhatsApp | [highscalability.com](http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-architecture-facebook-bought-for-19-billion.html) +| Design a picture sharing system like Instagram | [highscalability.com](http://highscalability.com/flickr-architecture)
[highscalability.com](http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/6/instagram-architecture-14-million-users-terabytes-of-photos.html) | +| Design the Facebook news feed function | [quora.com](http://www.quora.com/What-are-best-practices-for-building-something-like-a-News-Feed)
[quora.com](http://www.quora.com/Activity-Streams/What-are-the-scaling-issues-to-keep-in-mind-while-developing-a-social-network-feed)
[slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/danmckinley/etsy-activity-feeds-architecture) | +| Design the Facebook timeline function | [facebook.com](https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150468255628920)
[highscalability.com](http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/1/23/facebook-timeline-brought-to-you-by-the-power-of-denormaliza.html) | +| Design the Facebook chat function | [erlang-factory.com](http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/31/EugeneLetuchy-ErlangatFacebook.pdf)
[facebook.com](https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919&id=9445547199&index=0) | +| Design a graph search function like Facebook's | [facebook.com](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-building-out-the-infrastructure-for-graph-search/10151347573598920)
[facebook.com](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-indexing-and-ranking-in-graph-search/10151361720763920)
[facebook.com](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-the-natural-language-interface-of-graph-search/10151432733048920) | +| Design a content delivery network like CloudFlare | [cmu.edu](http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2112&context=compsci) | +| Design a trending topic system like Twitter's | [michael-noll.com](http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2013/01/18/implementing-real-time-trending-topics-in-storm/)
[snikolov .wordpress.com](http://snikolov.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/early-detection-of-twitter-trends/) | +| Design a random ID generation system | [blog.twitter.com](https://blog.twitter.com/2010/announcing-snowflake)
[github.com](https://github.com/twitter/snowflake/) | +| Return the top k requests during a time interval | [ucsb.edu](https://icmi.cs.ucsb.edu/research/tech_reports/reports/2005-23.pdf)
[wpi.edu](http://davis.wpi.edu/xmdv/docs/EDBT11-diyang.pdf) | +| Design a system that serves data from multiple data centers | [highscalability.com](http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/24/how-google-serves-data-from-multiple-datacenters.html) | +| Design an online multiplayer card game | [indieflashblog.com](http://www.indieflashblog.com/how-to-create-an-asynchronous-multiplayer-game.html)
[buildnewgames.com](http://buildnewgames.com/real-time-multiplayer/) | +| Design a garbage collection system | [stuffwithstuff.com](http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-garbage-collector/)
[washington.edu](http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep521/07wi/prj/rick.pdf) | +| Add a system design question | [Contribute](#contributing) |