Podcasts Technology Ladybug Podcast Systems Design

Systems Design

Published: July 13, 2020, 7 a.m.

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.

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Today we\u2019ll teach you some of the foundational elements of systems design so you can nail your next interview.

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  • 01:30 What is systems design
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  • 07:20 Key characteristics of a distributed system
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  • 13:24 Load balancing
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  • 17:48 Caching
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  • 31:05 Data partitioning
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  • 35:24 SQL vs. NoSQL
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  • 46:50 How to learn systems design
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  • 48:00 Shoutouts
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Here is the transcript for this week's episode.