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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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Enabling privacy and choice for customers in data system design

Lacework

Using a data orchestration tool, for example such as Apache Airflow 4 , an open source 5 tool for managing data engineering pipelines, customer data (CDB) is parsed in a local data warehouse within the customer home region. This local parsing involves identifying and either removing or masking any user identifiable information.

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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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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Krishna Birla, Software Engineer

Cloudera

Krishna is a Software Engineer working on our Compute Platform and operates out of Bangalore, India. His day to day revolves around cloud computing, resource scheduling and API & systems designing. . Technology and design are his major interest areas. How he lives his #ClouderaLife.

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Build a contextual text and image search engine for product recommendations using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Search engines and recommendation systems powered by generative AI can improve the product search experience exponentially by understanding natural language queries and returning more accurate results. A multimodal embeddings model is designed to learn joint representations of different modalities like text, images, and audio.

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The software engineering rule of 3

Erik Bernhardsson

Here’s a dumb extremely accurate rule I’m postulating* for software engineering projects: you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem. Engineers often focus way too much on reducing duplicated code. The same reasoning applies to system design but with a very different conclusion.