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See all 2 steps Learn system design with Interview Pen, step by step 29 videos in 2 steps, about 5 h 40 min of watching. Start at step 1 and move down.
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Scaling and speed 4 Messaging and events 3 Caching 2 Databases 2 Networking 2 Running in production 1 Consistency 1
1 Start here: the basics No background needed. What the main ideas are and why they exist. 3 videos · 42 min 1.1 Docker in 5 Minutes | System Design Beginner · 6 min · 10.4K views · 2023 How applications are packaged and run across many machines. 1.2 Basic System Design for Uber or Lyft | System Design Interview Prep Beginner · 16 min · 899.4K views · 2023 Designing for Uber or Lyft: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 1.3 Design a Basic Search Engine (Google or Bing) | System Design Interview Prep Beginner · 20 min · 471K views · 2023 Designing Basic Search Engine: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 2 Design whole systems (HLD) Put the blocks together for a real product, step by step. 26 videos · 4 h 58 min 2.1 When to Use Kafka or RabbitMQ | System Design Intermediate · 8 min · 331.4K views · 2024 Passing work and events between services without waiting for each other. 2.2 Design a Simple Authentication System | System Design Interview Prep Intermediate · 17 min · 225.9K views · 2023 Designing Simple Authentication System: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 2.3 Design Google Drive or Dropbox (Cloud File Sharing Service) | System Design Interview Prep Intermediate · 29 min · 101.5K views · 2023 Designing Google Drive or Dropbox: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 2.4 Design an ML Recommendation Engine | System Design Intermediate · 9 min · 83.4K views · 2024 Designing ML Recommendation Engine: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 2.5 Design a High-Throughput Logging System | System Design Intermediate · 8 min · 80K views · 2024 Designing High: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 2.6 System Design for Twitter (Timeline, Live Updates, Tweeting) | System Design Interview Prep Intermediate · 38 min · 76.7K views · 2023 Designing for Twitter: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 2.7 Design a Data Warehouse | System Design Intermediate · 14 min · 68.3K views · 2024 Designing Data Warehouse: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 2.8 How does Netflix's CDN scale to over 100TB/s? | System Design Intermediate · 9 min · 44.2K views · 2024 Serving files from servers near the user to cut delay. 2.9 How do Databases Work? | System Design Intermediate · 10 min · 42.6K views · 2024 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 2.10 Design a Fault Tolerant E-commerce System | System Design Intermediate · 8 min · 37.8K views · 2024 Designing Fault Tolerant E: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. Show all 26 Order and levels are picked by us from titles and lengths. The one-line notes are ours. Every video plays from YouTube and belongs to Interview Pen.
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System Design A series from the creator, in the order they made it. 22 videos · 3 h 8 min 1 How a CDN Works | System Design Intermediate · 5 min · 32.6K views · 2023 Serving files from servers near the user to cut delay. 2 Docker in 5 Minutes | System Design Beginner · 6 min · 10.4K views · 2023 How applications are packaged and run across many machines. 3 Design a High-Throughput Logging System | System Design Intermediate · 8 min · 80K views · 2024 Designing High: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 4 How does Netflix's CDN scale to over 100TB/s? | System Design Intermediate · 9 min · 44.2K views · 2024 Serving files from servers near the user to cut delay. 5 Design a Distributed Geospatial Data Platform | System Design Intermediate · 7 min · 8.7K views · 2024 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 6 Design a Faster App Store | System Design Intermediate · 9 min · 7.9K views · 2024 Designing Faster App Store: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 7 Design a Video Streaming Protocol (HLS, DASH) | System Design Intermediate · 5 min · 19.4K views · 2024 Designing Video Streaming Protocol: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 8 Design a Fault Tolerant E-commerce System | System Design Intermediate · 8 min · 37.8K views · 2024 Designing Fault Tolerant E: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 9 What makes Kafka special? | System Design Intermediate · 6 min · 21.5K views · 2024 Passing work and events between services without waiting for each other. 10 Design an ML Recommendation Engine | System Design Intermediate · 9 min · 83.4K views · 2024 Designing ML Recommendation Engine: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. Show all 22 interviewpen.com Premium Samples - System Design A series from the creator, in the order they made it. 6 videos · 2 h 28 min 1 Basic System Design for Uber or Lyft | System Design Interview Prep Beginner · 16 min · 899.4K views · 2023 Designing for Uber or Lyft: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 2 Design a Simple Authentication System | System Design Interview Prep Intermediate · 17 min · 225.9K views · 2023 Designing Simple Authentication System: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 3 System Design for Twitter (Timeline, Live Updates, Tweeting) | System Design Interview Prep Intermediate · 38 min · 76.7K views · 2023 Designing for Twitter: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 4 Design a Basic Search Engine (Google or Bing) | System Design Interview Prep Beginner · 20 min · 471K views · 2023 Designing Basic Search Engine: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 5 Design Google Drive or Dropbox (Cloud File Sharing Service) | System Design Interview Prep Intermediate · 29 min · 101.5K views · 2023 Designing Google Drive or Dropbox: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 6 Design an Email Automation Platform (Klaviyo, Mailchimp) | System Design Intermediate · 28 min · 15.5K views · 2024 Designing Email Automation Platform: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs.
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Redis streams are good, but i find it quite hard to use, i feel like it needs a library on top of it.
@twitchizle · 6 likes
on Using Redis Streams instead of Kafka - Redis Special Topics (2/4) | System Design
One of the best and simplest explanation of HTTP versions without complicating the details. Keep up the good work.
@mortal_coder4869 · 4 likes
on HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3 | System Design
Love your channel mate. Very helpful for interview prep
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on HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3 | System Design
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