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5/5 for the content.
2/5 for the layout and the quality of the printing.
The content is great, I wish there were more books like this one. Most of the books have theory and not enough or not at all practical examples. Alex put 16 great exercises for system design. I would also say that the title doesn't help the book, either you plan to go to interviews or not, the book will teach you how to think about system design. One thing it may misses is to talk a bit about Cloud Economics and how someone s ...more
2/5 for the layout and the quality of the printing.
The content is great, I wish there were more books like this one. Most of the books have theory and not enough or not at all practical examples. Alex put 16 great exercises for system design. I would also say that the title doesn't help the book, either you plan to go to interviews or not, the book will teach you how to think about system design. One thing it may misses is to talk a bit about Cloud Economics and how someone s ...more
Jan 06, 2021
Sergey Machulskis
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The best collection of "real-world" system designs I've ever seen. The author teaches concepts frequently appearing in distributed systems, and does it step-by-step. I wish I saw this book earlier.
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Reliable info to explore the system design
All concepts are very well written in easy understanding language with interesting real time scenarios on system designing. Definitely at the end of the book you feel that learned something useful
All concepts are very well written in easy understanding language with interesting real time scenarios on system designing. Definitely at the end of the book you feel that learned something useful
This is the best resource I could find for system design interviews online. It has a lot of details and I especially appreciate the diagrams. It covers so many popular interview questions: key value store, news feed, video streaming, tiny url, rate limiter, auto complete, web crawler, notification system etc. It helped me get my job offer at a big Tech company where I was asked about key value store. This is obviously a must-have book to prepare for SWE /SDE interviews. I strongly recommend this
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May be worth it if you're looking for an index/collection of interview design problems in case one does not know where to start. The writing is terrible, and the actual content differs widely in quality per chapter.
In addition, my print had a white stripe running from top to bottom of the page across the text wiping out 1 letter on each line. So the publishing quality of my copy was low. This book seems to get a lot of unjustified hype recently. ...more
In addition, my print had a white stripe running from top to bottom of the page across the text wiping out 1 letter on each line. So the publishing quality of my copy was low. This book seems to get a lot of unjustified hype recently. ...more
Very expensive, repetitive, and lacks details in crucial areas (while having lots of details around non critical topics)
Really easy to understand.
A great book to start learning more about the subject. Some might say that it repeats itself too much, I, however, find that it contains quite well-connected information
This book is a great resource to understand and practice system design knowledges for incoming interviews. The book is well constructed and fulfilled with detailed examples.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
Accessible intro to software systems design.
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