System Design Interview – An insider's guide book by Alex Xu is a really good introduction to the basics of System Design. It seems like coding interview on data structures and algorithms is enough, so now system design has become a common additional topic for interviews. Certainly for the last time that I was interviewed for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) this topic came up in detail.
The book does a great job with explaining the basic terminology and concepts. Then it builds up different designs by combining those concepts and explaining (in some instances) the pro's and con's of different solutions.
There is a huge amount of information on YouTube and other sites regarding System Design. I strongly recommend visiting ByteByteGo - which is the YT channel run by Alex Xu.
Last but not least, the graph above shows that I read the book in chapter sized chunks. This was due to the logical grouping of the topics and that I found that I needed some time between each concept presented to think it over. All in all I would definitely recommend this book and I will be reading it again in the coming years.
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