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+## Credits
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+Credits and sources are provided throughout this repo.
+
+Special thanks to:
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+* [Hired in tech](http://www.hiredintech.com/system-design/the-system-design-process/)
+* [Cracking the coding interview](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984782850/)
+* [checkcheckzz/system-design-interview](https://github.com/checkcheckzz/system-design-interview)
+* [shashank88/system_design](https://github.com/shashank88/system_design)
+* [mmcgrana/services-engineering](https://github.com/mmcgrana/services-engineering)
+* [System design cheat sheet](https://gist.github.com/vasanthk/485d1c25737e8e72759f)
+* [A distributed systems reading list](http://dancres.github.io/Pages/)
+* [Cracking the system design interview](http://www.puncsky.com/blog/2016/02/14/crack-the-system-design-interview/)