Now a days, you can find a large number of database technologies. Having such a large number of products and choices means having more trade-off decisions to make. …

If you are preparing for software developer job interviews, there are three different types of interviews that happen in an interview loop. Coding Interviews System Design Interviews Behavioral Interview We have discussed several times in the past how to ace your system design interviews. We even have a great Youtube…

In this article, we are going to discuss what are the differences between a Product Design vs. a System Design Interview. Now, a days many companies are asking Product Design Interviews as well (such as Meta) to even software engineering candidates. Most candidates do not understand the difference between a…

We recently introduced a new chapter on our course “Distributed System Design Interviews Bible” discussing the system design of a payment gateway service such as Stripe. The Bible of Distributed System Design Interviews The Best Distributed System Design Interview Preparation Course. This course is the single best resource to learn not…www.thinksoftwarelearning.com When we published the chapter on the Stripe System Design, we received complimentary emails from our students praising the details in the chapter. E.g…

Robinhood Stock Broker app backend is one of the complex distributed systems that are currently available. The backend design not only require that the service is highly available and scalable but based on the financial nature of the app it also require strong consistency and high reliability. If you are…

One of the best ways to prepare for a technical job interview is to have mock interviews. If you are preparing for software engineering positions in FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) or similar other big technology companies (e.g., Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, VMWare, and others) then you should also look…

In this article, we are going to discuss how to best prepare for system design interviews. Most candidates don’t know how to effectively and efficiently prepare for system design interviews. If you are reading this article, you must be one of them. Most of the time you spend practicing Leetcode…

Twitter Design Twitter is an online social networking service where users post and read short messages called “tweets”. Most candidates try to design Twitter as a monolithic service in System Design Interview. If you check several existing online resources, they also try to design Twitter as a monolithic service. However, in our…

Dropbox is a cloud file storage service. It enables users to share the files across their devices and also with remote storage servers. It does that by allowing the users to create special folders on each of their computers or mobile devices, which the service then synchronizes so that it…