diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0c970d52..c26a995f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ Review the [Contributing Guidelines](https://github.com/donnemartin/system-desig * [Appendix](#appendix) * [Powers of two table](#powers-of-two-table) * [Latency numbers every programmer should know](#latency-numbers-every-programmer-should-know) + * [Additional system design interview questions](#additional-system-design-interview-questions) + * [Real world architectures](#real-world-architectures) + * [Company architectures](#company-architectures) + * [Company engineering blogs](#company-engineering-blogs) * [Under development](#under-development) * [Credits](#credits) * [Contact info](#contact-info) @@ -339,154 +343,6 @@ Check out the following links to get a better idea of what to expect: | 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) | - -## Real world architectures - -> Articles on how real world systems are designed. - -

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- Source: Twitter timelines at scale -

- -**Don't focus on nitty gritty details for the following articles, instead:** - -* Identify shared principles, common technologies, and patterns within these articles -* Study what problems are solved by each component, where it works, where it doesn't -* Review the lessons learned - -|Type | System | Reference(s) | -|---|---|---| -| Data processing | **MapReduce** - Distributed data processing from Google | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/zh-CN/us/archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf) | -| Data processing | **Spark** - Distributed data processing from Databricks | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/AGrishchenko/apache-spark-architecture) | -| Data processing | **Storm** - Distributed data processing from Twitter | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/previa/storm-16094009) | -| | | | -| Data store | **Bigtable** - Distributed column-oriented database from Google | [harvard.edu](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/chang06bigtable.pdf) | -| Data store | **HBase** - Open source implementation of Bigtable | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/alexbaranau/intro-to-hbase) | -| Data store | **Cassandra** - Distributed column-oriented database from Facebook | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/planetcassandra/cassandra-introduction-features-30103666) -| Data store | **DynamoDB** - Document-oriented database from Amazon | [harvard.edu](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/decandia07dynamo.pdf) | -| Data store | **MongoDB** - Document-oriented database | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/mdirolf/introduction-to-mongodb) | -| Data store | **Spanner** - Globally-distributed database from Google | [research.google.com](http://research.google.com/archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf) | -| Data store | **Memcached** - Distributed memory caching system | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/oemebamo/introduction-to-memcached) | -| Data store | **Redis** - Distributed memory caching system with persistence and value types | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/dvirsky/introduction-to-redis) | -| | | | -| File system | **Google File System (GFS)** - Distributed file system | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/zh-CN/us/archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf) | -| File system | **Hadoop File System (HDFS)** - Open source implementation of GFS | [apache.org](https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/hdfs_design.html) | -| | | | -| Misc | **Chubby** - Lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems from Google | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf) | -| Misc | **Dapper** - Distributed systems tracing infrastructure | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/36356.pdf) -| Misc | **Kafka** - Pub/sub message queue from LinkedIn | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/mumrah/kafka-talk-tri-hug) | -| Misc | **Zookeeper** - Centralized infrastructure and services enabling synchronization | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/sauravhaloi/introduction-to-apache-zookeeper) | -| | Add an architecture | [Contribute](#contributing) | - -### Company architectures - -| Company | Reference(s) | -|---|---| -| Amazon | [Amazon architecture](http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture) | -| Cinchcast | [Producing 1,500 hours of audio every day](http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/7/16/cinchcast-architecture-producing-1500-hours-of-audio-every-d.html) | -| DataSift | [Realtime datamining At 120,000 tweets per second](http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/11/29/datasift-architecture-realtime-datamining-at-120000-tweets-p.html) | -| DropBox | [How we've scaled Dropbox](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc) | -| ESPN | [Operating At 100,000 duh nuh nuhs per second](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/11/4/espns-architecture-at-scale-operating-at-100000-duh-nuh-nuhs.html) | -| Google | [Google architecture](http://highscalability.com/google-architecture) | -| Instagram | [14 million users, terabytes of photos](http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/6/instagram-architecture-14-million-users-terabytes-of-photos.html)
[What powers Instagram](http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances) | -| Justin.tv | [Justin.Tv's live video broadcasting architecture](http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/16/justintvs-live-video-broadcasting-architecture.html) | -| Facebook | [Scaling memcached at Facebook](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/courses/854-Emerging-2014/readings/key-value/fb-memcached-nsdi-2013.pdf)
[TAO: Facebook’s distributed data store for the social graph](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/courses/854-Emerging-2014/readings/data-store/tao-facebook-distributed-datastore-atc-2013.pdf)
[Facebook’s photo storage](https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Beaver.pdf) | -| Flickr | [Flickr architecture](http://highscalability.com/flickr-architecture) | -| Mailbox | [From 0 to one million users in 6 weeks](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/6/18/scaling-mailbox-from-0-to-one-million-users-in-6-weeks-and-1.html) | -| Pinterest | [From 0 To 10s of billions of page views a month](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/4/15/scaling-pinterest-from-0-to-10s-of-billions-of-page-views-a.html)
[18 million visitors, 10x growth, 12 employees](http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/5/21/pinterest-architecture-update-18-million-visitors-10x-growth.html) | -| Playfish | [50 million monthly users and growing](http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/9/21/playfishs-social-gaming-architecture-50-million-monthly-user.html) | -| PlentyOfFish | [PlentyOfFish architecture](http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture) | -| Salesforce | [How they handle 1.3 billion transactions a day](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/9/23/salesforce-architecture-how-they-handle-13-billion-transacti.html) | -| Stack Overflow | [Stack Overflow architecture](http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html) | -| TripAdvisor | [40M visitors, 200M dynamic page views, 30TB data](http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/6/27/tripadvisor-architecture-40m-visitors-200m-dynamic-page-view.html) | -| Tumblr | [15 billion page views a month](http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architecture-15-billion-page-views-a-month-and-harder.html) | -| Twitter | [Making Twitter 10000 percent faster](http://highscalability.com/scaling-twitter-making-twitter-10000-percent-faster)
[Storing 250 million tweets a day using MySQL](http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/19/how-twitter-stores-250-million-tweets-a-day-using-mysql.html)
[150M active users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S firehose](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-twitter-uses-to-deal-with-150m-active-users.html)
[Timelines at scale](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Twitter-Timeline-Scalability)
[Big and small data at Twitter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cKTP36HVgI)
[Operations at Twitter: scaling beyond 100 million users](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8LU0Cj6BOU) | -| Uber | [How Uber scales their real-time market platform](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/9/14/how-uber-scales-their-real-time-market-platform.html) | -| WhatsApp | [The WhatsApp architecture Facebook bought for $19 billion](http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-architecture-facebook-bought-for-19-billion.html) | -| YouTube | [YouTube scalability](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5WVu624fY8)
[YouTube architecture](http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture) | - -## Company engineering blogs - -> Architectures for companies you are interviewing with. -> -> Questions you encounter might be from the same domain. - -* [Airbnb Engineering](http://nerds.airbnb.com/) -* [Atlassian Developers](https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/) -* [Autodesk Engineering](http://cloudengineering.autodesk.com/blog/) -* [AWS Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/) -* [Bitly Engineering Blog](http://word.bitly.com/) -* [Box Blogs](https://www.box.com/blog/engineering/) -* [Cloudera Developer Blog](http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/) -* [Dropbox Tech Blog](https://tech.dropbox.com/) -* [Engineering at Quora](http://engineering.quora.com/) -* [Ebay Tech Blog](http://www.ebaytechblog.com/) -* [Evernote Tech Blog](https://blog.evernote.com/tech/) -* [Etsy Code as Craft](http://codeascraft.com/) -* [Facebook Engineering](https://www.facebook.com/Engineering) -* [Flickr Code](http://code.flickr.net/) -* [Foursquare Engineering Blog](http://engineering.foursquare.com/) -* [GitHub Engineering Blog](http://githubengineering.com/) -* [Google Research Blog](http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/) -* [Groupon Engineering Blog](https://engineering.groupon.com/) -* [Heroku Engineering Blog](https://engineering.heroku.com/) -* [Hubspot Engineering Blog](http://product.hubspot.com/blog/topic/engineering) -* [High Scalability](http://highscalability.com/) -* [Instagram Engineering](http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/) -* [Intel Software Blog](https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/) -* [Jane Street Tech Blog](https://blogs.janestreet.com/category/ocaml/) -* [LinkedIn Engineering](http://engineering.linkedin.com/blog) -* [Microsoft Engineering](https://engineering.microsoft.com/) -* [Microsoft Python Engineering](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/) -* [Netflix Tech Blog](http://techblog.netflix.com/) -* [Paypal Developer Blog](https://devblog.paypal.com/category/engineering/) -* [Pinterest Engineering Blog](http://engineering.pinterest.com/) -* [Quora Engineering](https://engineering.quora.com/) -* [Reddit Blog](http://www.redditblog.com/) -* [Salesforce Engineering Blog](https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/engineering/) -* [Slack Engineering Blog](https://slack.engineering/) -* [Spotify Labs](https://labs.spotify.com/) -* [Twilio Engineering Blog](http://www.twilio.com/engineering) -* [Twitter Engineering](https://engineering.twitter.com/) -* [Uber Engineering Blog](http://eng.uber.com/) -* [Yahoo Engineering Blog](http://yahooeng.tumblr.com/) -* [Yelp Engineering Blog](http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/) -* [Zynga Engineering Blog](https://www.zynga.com/blogs/engineering) - -### Source(s) and further reading - -* [kilimchoi/engineering-blogs](https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs) - ## System design topics: start here New to system design? @@ -1711,6 +1567,154 @@ Handy metrics based on numbers above: * [Designs, lessons, and advice from building large distributed systems](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/talks/dean-keynote-ladis2009.pdf) * [Software Engineering Advice from Building Large-Scale Distributed Systems](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//people/jeff/stanford-295-talk.pdf) +### 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) | + +### Real world architectures + +> Articles on how real world systems are designed. + +

+ +
+ Source: Twitter timelines at scale +

+ +**Don't focus on nitty gritty details for the following articles, instead:** + +* Identify shared principles, common technologies, and patterns within these articles +* Study what problems are solved by each component, where it works, where it doesn't +* Review the lessons learned + +|Type | System | Reference(s) | +|---|---|---| +| Data processing | **MapReduce** - Distributed data processing from Google | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/zh-CN/us/archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf) | +| Data processing | **Spark** - Distributed data processing from Databricks | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/AGrishchenko/apache-spark-architecture) | +| Data processing | **Storm** - Distributed data processing from Twitter | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/previa/storm-16094009) | +| | | | +| Data store | **Bigtable** - Distributed column-oriented database from Google | [harvard.edu](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/chang06bigtable.pdf) | +| Data store | **HBase** - Open source implementation of Bigtable | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/alexbaranau/intro-to-hbase) | +| Data store | **Cassandra** - Distributed column-oriented database from Facebook | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/planetcassandra/cassandra-introduction-features-30103666) +| Data store | **DynamoDB** - Document-oriented database from Amazon | [harvard.edu](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/decandia07dynamo.pdf) | +| Data store | **MongoDB** - Document-oriented database | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/mdirolf/introduction-to-mongodb) | +| Data store | **Spanner** - Globally-distributed database from Google | [research.google.com](http://research.google.com/archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf) | +| Data store | **Memcached** - Distributed memory caching system | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/oemebamo/introduction-to-memcached) | +| Data store | **Redis** - Distributed memory caching system with persistence and value types | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/dvirsky/introduction-to-redis) | +| | | | +| File system | **Google File System (GFS)** - Distributed file system | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/zh-CN/us/archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf) | +| File system | **Hadoop File System (HDFS)** - Open source implementation of GFS | [apache.org](https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/hdfs_design.html) | +| | | | +| Misc | **Chubby** - Lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems from Google | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf) | +| Misc | **Dapper** - Distributed systems tracing infrastructure | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/36356.pdf) +| Misc | **Kafka** - Pub/sub message queue from LinkedIn | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/mumrah/kafka-talk-tri-hug) | +| Misc | **Zookeeper** - Centralized infrastructure and services enabling synchronization | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/sauravhaloi/introduction-to-apache-zookeeper) | +| | Add an architecture | [Contribute](#contributing) | + +### Company architectures + +| Company | Reference(s) | +|---|---| +| Amazon | [Amazon architecture](http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture) | +| Cinchcast | [Producing 1,500 hours of audio every day](http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/7/16/cinchcast-architecture-producing-1500-hours-of-audio-every-d.html) | +| DataSift | [Realtime datamining At 120,000 tweets per second](http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/11/29/datasift-architecture-realtime-datamining-at-120000-tweets-p.html) | +| DropBox | [How we've scaled Dropbox](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc) | +| ESPN | [Operating At 100,000 duh nuh nuhs per second](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/11/4/espns-architecture-at-scale-operating-at-100000-duh-nuh-nuhs.html) | +| Google | [Google architecture](http://highscalability.com/google-architecture) | +| Instagram | [14 million users, terabytes of photos](http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/6/instagram-architecture-14-million-users-terabytes-of-photos.html)
[What powers Instagram](http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances) | +| Justin.tv | [Justin.Tv's live video broadcasting architecture](http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/16/justintvs-live-video-broadcasting-architecture.html) | +| Facebook | [Scaling memcached at Facebook](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/courses/854-Emerging-2014/readings/key-value/fb-memcached-nsdi-2013.pdf)
[TAO: Facebook’s distributed data store for the social graph](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/courses/854-Emerging-2014/readings/data-store/tao-facebook-distributed-datastore-atc-2013.pdf)
[Facebook’s photo storage](https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Beaver.pdf) | +| Flickr | [Flickr architecture](http://highscalability.com/flickr-architecture) | +| Mailbox | [From 0 to one million users in 6 weeks](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/6/18/scaling-mailbox-from-0-to-one-million-users-in-6-weeks-and-1.html) | +| Pinterest | [From 0 To 10s of billions of page views a month](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/4/15/scaling-pinterest-from-0-to-10s-of-billions-of-page-views-a.html)
[18 million visitors, 10x growth, 12 employees](http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/5/21/pinterest-architecture-update-18-million-visitors-10x-growth.html) | +| Playfish | [50 million monthly users and growing](http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/9/21/playfishs-social-gaming-architecture-50-million-monthly-user.html) | +| PlentyOfFish | [PlentyOfFish architecture](http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture) | +| Salesforce | [How they handle 1.3 billion transactions a day](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/9/23/salesforce-architecture-how-they-handle-13-billion-transacti.html) | +| Stack Overflow | [Stack Overflow architecture](http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html) | +| TripAdvisor | [40M visitors, 200M dynamic page views, 30TB data](http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/6/27/tripadvisor-architecture-40m-visitors-200m-dynamic-page-view.html) | +| Tumblr | [15 billion page views a month](http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architecture-15-billion-page-views-a-month-and-harder.html) | +| Twitter | [Making Twitter 10000 percent faster](http://highscalability.com/scaling-twitter-making-twitter-10000-percent-faster)
[Storing 250 million tweets a day using MySQL](http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/19/how-twitter-stores-250-million-tweets-a-day-using-mysql.html)
[150M active users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S firehose](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-twitter-uses-to-deal-with-150m-active-users.html)
[Timelines at scale](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Twitter-Timeline-Scalability)
[Big and small data at Twitter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cKTP36HVgI)
[Operations at Twitter: scaling beyond 100 million users](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8LU0Cj6BOU) | +| Uber | [How Uber scales their real-time market platform](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/9/14/how-uber-scales-their-real-time-market-platform.html) | +| WhatsApp | [The WhatsApp architecture Facebook bought for $19 billion](http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-architecture-facebook-bought-for-19-billion.html) | +| YouTube | [YouTube scalability](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5WVu624fY8)
[YouTube architecture](http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture) | + +### Company engineering blogs + +> Architectures for companies you are interviewing with. +> +> Questions you encounter might be from the same domain. + +* [Airbnb Engineering](http://nerds.airbnb.com/) +* [Atlassian Developers](https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/) +* [Autodesk Engineering](http://cloudengineering.autodesk.com/blog/) +* [AWS Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/) +* [Bitly Engineering Blog](http://word.bitly.com/) +* [Box Blogs](https://www.box.com/blog/engineering/) +* [Cloudera Developer Blog](http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/) +* [Dropbox Tech Blog](https://tech.dropbox.com/) +* [Engineering at Quora](http://engineering.quora.com/) +* [Ebay Tech Blog](http://www.ebaytechblog.com/) +* [Evernote Tech Blog](https://blog.evernote.com/tech/) +* [Etsy Code as Craft](http://codeascraft.com/) +* [Facebook Engineering](https://www.facebook.com/Engineering) +* [Flickr Code](http://code.flickr.net/) +* [Foursquare Engineering Blog](http://engineering.foursquare.com/) +* [GitHub Engineering Blog](http://githubengineering.com/) +* [Google Research Blog](http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/) +* [Groupon Engineering Blog](https://engineering.groupon.com/) +* [Heroku Engineering Blog](https://engineering.heroku.com/) +* [Hubspot Engineering Blog](http://product.hubspot.com/blog/topic/engineering) +* [High Scalability](http://highscalability.com/) +* [Instagram Engineering](http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/) +* [Intel Software Blog](https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/) +* [Jane Street Tech Blog](https://blogs.janestreet.com/category/ocaml/) +* [LinkedIn Engineering](http://engineering.linkedin.com/blog) +* [Microsoft Engineering](https://engineering.microsoft.com/) +* [Microsoft Python Engineering](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/) +* [Netflix Tech Blog](http://techblog.netflix.com/) +* [Paypal Developer Blog](https://devblog.paypal.com/category/engineering/) +* [Pinterest Engineering Blog](http://engineering.pinterest.com/) +* [Quora Engineering](https://engineering.quora.com/) +* [Reddit Blog](http://www.redditblog.com/) +* [Salesforce Engineering Blog](https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/engineering/) +* [Slack Engineering Blog](https://slack.engineering/) +* [Spotify Labs](https://labs.spotify.com/) +* [Twilio Engineering Blog](http://www.twilio.com/engineering) +* [Twitter Engineering](https://engineering.twitter.com/) +* [Uber Engineering Blog](http://eng.uber.com/) +* [Yahoo Engineering Blog](http://yahooeng.tumblr.com/) +* [Yelp Engineering Blog](http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/) +* [Zynga Engineering Blog](https://www.zynga.com/blogs/engineering) + +#### Source(s) and further reading + +* [kilimchoi/engineering-blogs](https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs) + ## Under development Interested in adding a section or helping complete one in-progress? [Contribute](#contributing)!