Chapter 14

The Interview Framework

A repeatable framework for system design interviews: clarify requirements, estimate scale, sketch the high-level design, then dive deep.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

✦Functional and non-functional requirements definition
✦Back-of-the-envelope scale estimation
✦High-level architecture design
✦Identifying and resolving system bottlenecks

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