One Pager Cheat Sheet

• This tutorial aims to provide an introduction to systems design, its various concepts and how to answer systems design interview questions, and how these skills can help with career growth as a developer.
• Systems design in software engineering is the process of making decisions regarding the elements of a complex application to ensure the speed, reliability and stability of its services.
• Interviewers typically use systems design questions to gauge candidates' ability to identify and communicate requirements, and demonstrate their knowledge of technical concepts, trade-offs and bottlenecks, as well as thoughts on maintainability, by developing a diagram of all the moving parts of the system.
• Get development experience working on complex, data-intensive applications and look for similarities between seemingly separate aspects of software development to improve upon systems design knowledge.
• By actually building projects comprised of multiple moving pieces, you can gain invaluable experience that will help understand the "why" of software design.
• Exploring open source projects is a great way to deeply understand code and can provide a range of unique opportunities to contribute.
• Reading white papers and learning from technical considerations from them is crucial for honing engineering proficiency and like strength-training for developers.
• Design docs are an in-depth explanation of how and why a particular system was built, and can be extremely valuable resources for engineers, particularly during on-boarding. The ASOS and HighScalability blog books are excellent sources for such documentation.
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmannand theGithub Repository Systems Design Primer` are both great resources to check out when preparing for a systems design interview.
• Utilizing a solid deep work philosophy and reading the given resources will help you to become well prepared for any systems design interview that comes your way.