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A Detailed Guide on Conducting Effective System Design Interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

System design interviews are becoming increasingly popular, and important, as the digital systems we work with become more complex. The term ‘system’ here refers to any set of interdependent modules that work together for a common purpose. Uber, Instagram, and Twitter (now X) are all examples of ‘systems’.

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8 Steps to acing your next system design interview

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

System design can be a huge leap forward in your career both in terms of money and satisfaction you get from your job. But if your previous job was focused on working closely on one of the components of a system, it can be hard to switch to high-level thinking. Imagine switching from roofing to architectural design.

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Coach your Architects in Agile Architecture!

Xebia

Some companies ignore architects in their transformation, some will upskill their architects, and some will make the DevOps teams responsible for the architecture. A core problem we see is that those responsible for the transformation have little experience dealing with architecture in an agile way.

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Enabling privacy and choice for customers in data system design

Lacework

This article addresses privacy in the context of hosting data and considers how privacy by design can be incorporated into the data architecture. This is how Lacework puts customers first — by ensuring protection and control of customer data is at the core of our technology and data architecture design.

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How to Conduct Effective System Design Interviews with a Virtual Whiteboard

CodeSignal

Join CodeSignal CEO Tigran Sloyan and Co-Founder Sophia Baik in Data-Drive Recruiting Episode #40 as they discuss how to conduct an effective system design interview with a virtual whiteboard. Because a candidate is asked to draw the design on a whiteboard, it’s also widely known as a whiteboarding interview. more below).

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Sustainable change requires architecture of technology and organization

Xebia

It’s about the technical, social and cognitive aspects of an organization and system. Designing a socio-technical system means you explicitly thinking about the interrelation of these three aspects. For engineers involved in the project, it increases the cognitive load. You almost assume this is common sense right?

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

At Google, he was a remarkable Software Engineer. David’s main areas of investigation are as under: Parallel computing Computer architecture Distributed computing Workload Embedded system. Books written by David on computer architecture are extensively used in computer science education. He served for 40 years.