4 System Design Resources

System Design Interview Basics

A comprehensive playlist covering fundamental system design concepts and interview preparation.

YouTube Playlist: System Design Interview Basics by ByteMonk

Key Topics Covered

Learning Path

This playlist covers essential system design concepts that are commonly asked in technical interviews and useful for building scalable systems.

Core Concepts

• Scalability and performance optimization
• Load balancing strategies
• Caching mechanisms
• Database design and sharding
• Microservices architecture
• API design patterns
• Message queues and event-driven architecture

AWS-Specific Patterns

• Designing for high availability
• Multi-region architectures
• Serverless design patterns
• Container orchestration strategies

Related System Design Topics

• 1 Load Balancing Algorithms - Understanding load distribution strategies
• 2 Inter-Process Communication (IPC) - Service communication patterns
• 3 Single Sign-On (SSO) - Authentication architecture

Additional Learning Resources

Books

• “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” by Martin Kleppmann
• “System Design Interview” by Alex Xu

Online Platforms

• ByteByteGo - System design explanations and diagrams
• ByteMonk - System design interview preparation
• AWS Architecture Center - AWS reference architectures

Practice

• Design scalable systems using AWS services
• Review AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Practice whiteboard system design exercises

AWS Services for System Design

• Compute: 1 EC2 Overview, 1 ECS Overview, 1 Architecture
• Networking: 1 VPC Overview, 1 Load Balancing Algorithms
• Storage: 1 EBS and EFS, Amazon S3
• Database: 4 Amazon RDS, DynamoDB
• Messaging: SQS, SNS, EventBridge