systemdesignfightclub/sdfc

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

sdfc's Issues

Discord invite

Hi, can you please share an invite link to the SDFC discord? The link in the image in the README file seems to be invalid now. Thank you!