Systems Design
Ladybug Podcast - A podcast by Emma Bostian, Kelly Vaughn
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Systems design interviews are becoming more and more prevalent and can indicate your ability to work with complex systems. Many engineers struggle with the systems design interviews as a result of their inexperience developing large-scale systems.
Today we’ll teach you some of the foundational elements of systems design so you can nail your next interview.
Show Notes
- 01:30 What is systems design
- 07:20 Key characteristics of a distributed system
- 13:24 Load balancing
- 17:48 Caching
- 31:05 Data partitioning
- 35:24 SQL vs. NoSQL
- 46:50 How to learn systems design
- 48:00 Shoutouts
Resources
- Educative.io course
- Free Code Camp article
- Algo Expert Course
- Tobias VanSchneider
- Dev April Fools
- How Stack Overflow Caches
Transcript
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