System Design Interview Flashcards
System design interviews are make-or-break for senior roles. 30 concepts from load balancers to designing a rate limiter.
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What's covered
Horizontal/vertical scaling, CAP theorem, sharding, message queues, CDNs, microservices, API gateways, circuit breakers, consistent hashing, CQRS.
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