Kevin asks Wes to design Dropbox, with an emphasis on designing the data model and storage techniques to scale out.Helpful links:https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/design-dropbox-a-system-design-interview-question/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4

Distributed Caches

Feb 14th, 2021 26m 5s

As Kevin prepares to start a new job at Instacart, he explains some ideas around how a company like Instacart could employ caching to improve the scalability of their services.Show notes:https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/all-things-caching-

Message Queues

Dec 6th, 2020 31m 7s

Wes and Kevin talk about message queues, the problems they solve, and how they work. https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primerhttp://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/https://netflixtechblog.com/https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials

SQL vs noSQL Databases

Oct 17th, 2020 30m 14s

Breaking away from the interview format, Wes and Kevin deep dive into SQL vs noSQL databases.Show notes:ACID compliance - https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/acid-compliance-what-it-means-and-why-you-should-careCAP theorem https://www.ibm.com/cl

Facebook Timeline Interview

Sep 15th, 2020 34m 24s

Wes asks Kevin to design the Facebook/Twitter Timeline with an emphasis on scaling to a large number of users.I'd encourage you to pause where relevant to try to think through these designs yourself - it really helps the content sink in.Helpful

Google Docs Interview

Sep 15th, 2020 43m 47s

In our first episode, Kevin gives Wes a mock interview on how to design google docs. Helpful linksThe git storage technique we referenced is described in detail here - https://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-pt-1 (Note that

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