System Design Interview Prep

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Master system design interviews with a complete walkthrough of designing real-world systems.

Prompt

Walk me through designing [System: Twitter/Netflix/Uber/WhatsApp/URL Shortener/etc.] for a system design interview at a top tech company.

Cover all aspects:
1. Clarifying requirements (functional + non-functional)
2. Capacity estimation (users, storage, bandwidth, QPS)
3. High-level architecture diagram (text)
4. Core components:
   - Load balancers
   - Application servers
   - Database choice and reasoning
   - Cache layer (Redis/Memcached)
   - Message queues
   - CDN
5. Database schema for core entities
6. API design
7. Scale-out strategy
8. Handling bottlenecks
9. Data consistency and availability tradeoffs (CAP theorem)
10. Monitoring and alerting

Present as you would in a 45-minute interview.

How To Use This Prompt

Specify the system to design and the company level (FAANG vs startup scale).

Example Output

          Designing a URL Shortener: Requirements: 100M URLs/day, read-heavy (100:1 read/write), 5-year retention...        

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