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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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A collaborative online diagram board to help you seamlessly conduct system design interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

System design interviews are an integral part of tech hiring and are conducted later in the interview process. System design interviews help you assess a candidate’s ability to design complex systems and understand their thought process for creating real-world products. What are system design interviews? .

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A collaborative online diagram board to help you seamlessly conduct system design interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

System design interviews are an integral part of a tech hiring process and are conducted later in the interview process. System design interviews are for assessing a candidate’s ability to design complex systems and understand their thought process for creating real-world products. to FaceCode.

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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. In the first article in this series, the topic of privacy by design is covered in some detail, particularly regarding the design of products for enterprise security and data hosting.

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Self-documenting Architecture

Strategic Tech

I’ve heard the opinion from many technical leaders that it is reasonable to expect a new hire to take upto 6 months to learn about the code, the domain, and the architecture before they become fully productive. I believe that self-documenting architecture would dramatically reduce one of the big costs in software development.

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Sustainable change requires architecture of technology and organization

Xebia

Learning new skills, introducing new tools. Ever witnessed the introduction of a new technology or tool that only a few people understood? If so, you might recognize that the introduced tool only solved a part of the problem. The dynamics between technology and people we call socio-technical systems.