System Design Mastery: The Complete First-Principles Guide to Scalable Architectures, AI-Era Engineering, and Cracking FAANG Interviews at Every Level [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

The most complete system design guide for engineers who want to go further — from Senior to Staff Engineer.Written by a distributed systems engineer with over a decade of experience at top technology companies, System Design Mastery gives you the inside edge for your next system design interview. This book contains real architectural solutions distilled from hundreds of interviews at Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft — with the reasoning behind every decision, not just the answer.Most system design books teach you what to build. This book teaches you how to think.Walk through designs of recurring components that are the building blocks of every large-scale system:Load balancerAPI gatewayDistributed cacheContent delivery networkMessage queueObject storageNotification serviceVector databaseFeature storeUnique ID generatorAnd more...Learn a systematic approach to tackling any system design question through step-by-step solutions, including:Twitter / X — timeline, fan-out, and feed at 500M tweets per dayWhatsApp — real-time messaging, delivery guarantees, group chat at scaleYouTube — video transcoding, adaptive streaming, CDN architecturePayment System — idempotency, Saga pattern, double-entry ledgerWeb Crawler — URL frontier, Bloom filter deduplication, 1B pages per monthGaming Leaderboard — Redis sorted sets, O(log N) rank at 100M playersRecommendation Engine — two-tower model, ANN retrieval, real-time featuresDistributed Message Queue — Kafka-style partitions, consumer groups, exactly-once deliveryAI Search System — RAG pipeline, hybrid retrieval, LLM serving infrastructureAnd more...50 interview questions. One complete system.Get System Design Mastery today — and walk into your next interview knowing exactly how to think. Read more