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Roadmap and Resource Compilation for System Design Fight Club

Link to my youtube channel:

System Design Fight Club - Live every weekend, over 50 problems covered

https://www.youtube.com/@SDFC

Files, diagrams, and screenshots from the live coverage of over 50 problems is uploaded to the following subfolder of this repo: https://github.com/systemdesignfightclub/SDFC/tree/main/problems

Roadmap & Useful Resources

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Useful Books/Resources:

• Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
  • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321
  • ISBN: 978-1449373320
• Database Internals by Alex Petrov
  • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492040347/
  • ISBN: 978-1492040347
• System Design Interview (Volume 1) by Alex Xu
  • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CMF2CQF/
  • ISBN: 979-8664653403
• System Design Interview (Volume 2) by Alex Xu
  • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736049119/
  • ISBN: 978-1736049112
• Grokking the System Design Interview
  • https://designgurus.org/course/grokking-the-system-design-interview
  • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Grokking-System-Design-Interview-interview/dp/B09NRJT1NF/
  • ISBN: 979-8766433668
  • libgen: https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=138284470
• Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview
  • https://designgurus.org/course/grokking-the-advanced-system-design-interview
  • libgen: https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=138824344
• Donne Martin's System Design Primer
  • https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer
• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
  • ISBN: 978-1491929124
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/149192912X/
• The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE
  • ISBN: 978-1492029502
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492029505/
• Understanding Distributed Systems
  • ISBN: 978-1838430214
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/1838430210/
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture - Mark Richards & Neal Ford
  • ISBN: 978-1492043454
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492043451
• Software Architecture: The Hard Parts - Mark Richards & Neal Ford
  • ISBN: 978-1492086895
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492086894
• System Design Interview by Lewis Lin
• Hacking the System Design Interview by Stanley Chiang
• Distributed Systems by Tanenbaum
• Building Microservices by Sam Newman
• Designing Distributed Systems by Brendan Burns
• Specifying Systems by Leslie Lamport

Useful YouTube Channels:

• The Facebook E6 guy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ8590hU1VY8YcZb7k5-IhQ/videos
• ByteByteGo (Alex Xu): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZgt6AzoyjslHTC9dz0UoTw
• InfoQ: https://www.youtube.com/nctv/videos
  • covers Facebook's TAO architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNIvHttFjdI
• Jordan Has No Life: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbvDQKzAJ5GwCjTrv4FWkxg/videos
• Usenix: https://www.youtube.com/c/UsenixOrg/videos
  • covers Netflix Zuul Push: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w6E_B55p0E
• MIT distributed systems course: https://youtube.com/channel/UC_7WrbZTCODu1o_kfUMq88g
• Amazon Principal Engineer's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ALifeEngineered
• phenomenal 100 second long summary videos on huge variety of topics: https://www.youtube.com/c/Fireship
• Martin Kleppmann himself: https://www.youtube.com/@kleppmann
• groups of professors and FAANGMULA principal engineers that reads research papers: https://www.youtube.com/@distsysreadinggroup596/videos
• Leslie Lamport made a video series on learning TLA+: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html
• mirror of Leslie Lamport's video series on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@tlavideocourse8540
• Carnegie Mellon's Distributed Databases course: https://www.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup

Other useful discord channels:

• Alex Xu's Discord Channel: http://bit.ly/systemdiscord
• Facebook E6 guy's Discord for mock interviews: https://discord.gg/bmGYsfRrMk
• Neetcode's Discord channel: https://discord.gg/NNFrjhhbcZ
• A Life Engineered discord channel: https://discord.gg/AWxkUWq7Mw

Important Whitepapers

• Dynamo
• Kafka
• Cassandra
• BigTable
• BigQuery
• Spanner
• GFS
• Dremel
• Raft/Paxos
• MapReduce
• Spark
• Chubby
• Zookeeper
• HDFS
• Flink Bigger list with some notes from a Google L7:
• https://stephenholiday.com/notes/

Engineering Blogs:

• Companies:
  • Uber: https://eng.uber.com/
  • Pinterest: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/
  • Snapchat: https://eng.snap.com/blog
  • Netflix: http://techblog.netflix.com/
  • Dropbox: https://tech.dropbox.com/
  • Google: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Engineering
  • Twitter: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/
  • Jane Street: https://blog.janestreet.com/
  • fly.io/blog/
• Other:
  • http://highscalability.com/
  • https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
• Bigger lists:
  • https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer#company-engineering-blogs
  • https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs