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System Design

Wes and Kevin

Software Engineers Wes Moncrief and Kevin Li discuss aspects of the system design interview, as well as related topics in designing large and interesting software architectures. If you're ne...

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Listen to System Design, a Technology podcast by Wes and Kevin. Stream 6 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

6 episodes are available for this podcast.

Episodes

6 episodes

Dropbox Interview

Kevin asks Wes to design Dropbox, with an emphasis on designing the data model and storage techniques to scale out. Helpful links: https://w...

32:40Feb 28, 2021

Distributed Caches

As Kevin prepares to start a new job at Instacart, he explains some ideas around how a company like Instacart could employ caching to improv...

26:05Feb 14, 2021

Message Queues

Wes and Kevin talk about message queues, the problems they solve, and how they work. https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer htt...

31:07Dec 6, 2020

SQL vs noSQL Databases

Breaking away from the interview format, Wes and Kevin deep dive into SQL vs noSQL databases. Show notes: ACID compliance - https://mariadb....

30:14Oct 17, 2020

Facebook Timeline Interview

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 pau...

34:24Sep 16, 2020

Google Docs Interview

In our first episode, Kevin gives Wes a mock interview on how to design google docs. Helpful links The git storage technique we referenced i...

43:47Sep 15, 2020