In this System Design Basics interview, you will have 35 minutes to demonstrate your understanding of system design principles through a series of verbal questions and scenarios. You will be asked to describe the components of a scalable system and the considerations that are important when designing for scale. You will also discuss different architectural patterns, such as microservices and monoliths, and their trade-offs, and explain which pattern you would choose for a given scenario and why. Additionally, you will explore data storage options and how to handle data consistency in distributed systems, including the differences between eventual consistency and strong consistency. You will also be asked about load balancing strategies and how they can help achieve high availability, and you will need to explain your approach to load balancing for a system handling high traffic. Finally, you will discuss caching strategies and how they can optimize system performance. Throughout the interview, you will be encouraged to articulate your thought process and reasoning behind your design choices clearly, and you will have the opportunity to solve scenarios and problems and discuss your design decisions with the interviewer.

System Design Basics

Design scalable, distributed systems