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Systems Design

Systems Design

Ladybug Podcast · Emma Bostian, Kelly Vaughn

July 13, 202052m 12s

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Show Notes

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

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