System Design Study Checklist

Hello Interview YT Channel Videos — ordered for beginner learning. Go through all the sections in order to study and practice basic system design concepts.

How To Learn System Design

Getting Started Notes

How To Learn System Design Videos:

How to Learn System Design with Jordan Has No Life
How to Prepare for System Design Interviews w/ Meta Staff Engineer

CAP Theorem

CAP Theorem Notes

Cap Theorem Videos:

CAP Theorem in System Design Interviews

Networking

Networking Notes [TODO]

Networking Videos:

Networking Essentials for System Design Interviews w/ Ex Meta Senior Manager

API Design

API Design Notes [TODO]

API Design Videos:

API Design in System Design Interviews w/ Meta Staff Engineer
API Gateways in System Design Interviews w/ Ex-Meta Staff Engineer
Data Modeling in System Design Interviews w/ Meta Staff Engineer

Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems Notes [TODO]

Distributed Systems Videos:

Distributed Transactions Explained: 2 Phase Commit vs Saga Pattern

Concurrency

Concurrency Notes [TODO]

Concurrency Videos:

Concurrency in Low-level Design Interviews w/ Staff Engineer

Database

Database Notes [TODO]

Database Videos:

Cassandra Deep Dive w/ a Ex-Meta Staff Engineer
DB Indexing in System Design Interviews - B-tree, Geospatial, Inverted Index, and more!
DynamoDB Deep Dive w/ a Ex-Meta Staff Engineer
Object Storage in System Design Interviews w/ Ex-Meta Staff Engineer
Proximity Search & Geospatial Indexes Explained

Search

Search Notes [TODO]

Search Vidoes:

Elasticsearch Deep Dive w/ a Ex-Meta Senior Manager for System Design Interviews

Caching

Caching Notes [TODO]

Caching Videos:

Caching in System Design Interviews w/ Meta Staff Engineer
Redis Deep Dive w/ a Ex-Meta Senior Manager
Why Shopify Moved Inventory Reservations from Redis to MySQL

Streaming and Queueing

Streaming-and-Queueing-Notes [TODO]

Streaming and Queueing Videos:

Kafka System Design Deep Dive w/ a Ex-Meta Staff Engineer
Kafka vs RabbitMQ
Message Queues in System Design Interviews w/ Meta Staff Engineer

Sharding

Sharding Notes [TODO]

Sharding Videos:

Sharding in System Design Interviews w/ Meta Staff Engineer

Data Structures

Data Structures Notes [TODO]

Data Structures Videos:

Consistent Hashing: Easy Explanation for System Design Interviews
Data Structures for Big Data in Interviews - Bloom Filters, Count-Min Sketch, HyperLogLog

Leetcode

Leetcode Notes [TODO]

Leetcode Videos:

Coding Interview Fundamentals: Depth-First Search and Recursion (Binary Trees)
Coding Interview Fundamentals: Post-Order Traversal
Leetcode 200: Number of Islands - Coding Question Walkthrough

How Does That Work

How Does That Work Notes [TODO]

How Does That Work Videos:

Bot Detection | ML System Design Problem Breakdown
Harmful Content Detection / Content Moderation | ML System Design Problem Breakdown
How do Time Series Databases Work?
Real-Time Collaboration Explained - System Design
Recommendation System Infra Basics 1
Top-K System Design Interview Breakdown w/ Ex-Meta Senior Manager

Interview Help

Interview Help Notes [TODO]

Interview Help Videos:

Behavioral Interview: Common Questions Broken Down by Ex-Meta & Amazon Senior Managers
Behavioral Interview Discussion with Ex-Meta Hiring Committee Member
The Art of People Manager Interviews: Tips and Tricks with Ex-Meta and Amazon Leader

AI

AI Notes [TODO]

AI Videos:

AI Coding Interview w/ Meta Staff Engineer
Interview with a Databricks Head of Applied AI: Industry Trends, How to Move Ahead, and Keeping Sane
Interview with a Meta EM: AI Impact on SWEs, Team Match, Ramp-Up, How to Learn

Design A Thing

Design A Thing Notes [TODO]