Cracking the System Design Interview [Theory Basics]

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System design interviews are in general 45–60 minutes long where you are given a broad topic like “Design Twitter”. You’ll be expected to generate a high-level design, showing the different system components that will be required, how they’re connected, and any trade-offs in the approach you’ve taken. Time permitting, the interviewers will ask you to go deeper into how some of your system components…