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The Interview Library

Study notes for system design, coding patterns, object-oriented design, machine learning, generative AI and mobile interviews — typeset for slow, focused reading.

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Volumes
06
Chapters
95
Hours
≈35
Figures
2,365

(01) The collection

Six volumes, one shelf.

(02) Index

Every chapter, at a glance.

Vol. 01System Design Interview
  1. 01Scale From Zero To Millions Of Users22 min
  2. 02Back-of-the-envelope Estimation5 min
  3. 03A Framework For System Design Interviews10 min
  4. 04Design A Rate Limiter19 min
  5. 05Design Consistent Hashing8 min
  6. 06Design A Key-value Store18 min
  7. 07Design A Unique ID Generator In Distributed Systems6 min
  8. 08Design A URL Shortener10 min
  9. 09Design A Web Crawler17 min
  10. 10Design A Notification System10 min
  11. 11Design A News Feed System8 min
  12. 12Design A Chat System18 min
  13. 13Design A Search Autocomplete System16 min
  14. 14Design YouTube19 min
  15. 15Design Google Drive18 min
  16. 16Proximity Service30 min
  17. 17Nearby Friends16 min
  18. 18Google Maps31 min
  19. 19Distributed Message Queue39 min
  20. 20Metrics Monitoring and Alerting System23 min
  21. 21Ad Click Event Aggregation29 min
  22. 22Hotel Reservation System27 min
  23. 23Distributed Email Service27 min
  24. 24S3-like Object Storage35 min
  25. 25Real-time Gaming Leaderboard26 min
  26. 26Payment System29 min
  27. 27Digital Wallet36 min
  28. 28Stock Exchange39 min
  29. 29The Learning Continues3 min
Vol. 02Coding Interview Patterns
  1. 01Two Pointers29 min
  2. 02Hash Maps and Sets24 min
  3. 03Linked List24 min
  4. 04Fast and Slow Pointers13 min
  5. 05Sliding Windows14 min
  6. 06Binary Search41 min
  7. 07Stacks26 min
  8. 08Heaps17 min
  9. 09Intervals11 min
  10. 10Prefix Sums11 min
  11. 11Trees46 min
  12. 12Tries15 min
  13. 13Graphs43 min
  14. 14BackTracking19 min
  15. 15Dynamic Programming42 min
  16. 16Greedy15 min
  17. 17Sort And Search20 min
  18. 18Bit Manipulation10 min
  19. 19Math and Geometry18 min
Vol. 03Object-Oriented Design Interview
  1. 01What is an Object-Oriented Design Interview4 min
  2. 02A Framework for the OOD Interview14 min
  3. 03OOP Fundamentals19 min
  4. 04Design a Parking Lot18 min
  5. 05Design a Movie Ticket Booking System18 min
  6. 06Design a Unix File Search System17 min
  7. 07Design a Vending Machine16 min
  8. 08Design an Elevator System20 min
  9. 09Design a Grocery Store System16 min
  10. 10Design a Tic Tac Toe Game12 min
  11. 11Design a Blackjack Game16 min
  12. 12Design a Shipping Locker System15 min
  13. 13Design an ATM System14 min
  14. 14Design a Restaurant Management System14 min
Vol. 04Machine Learning System Design Interview
  1. 01Introduction and Overview35 min
  2. 02Visual Search System20 min
  3. 03Google Street View Blurring System15 min
  4. 04YouTube Video Search18 min
  5. 05Harmful Content Detection19 min
  6. 06Video Recommendation System25 min
  7. 07Event Recommendation System17 min
  8. 08Ad Click Prediction on Social Platforms22 min
  9. 09Similar Listings on Vacation Rental Platforms16 min
  10. 10Personalized News Feed18 min
  11. 11People You May Know18 min
Vol. 05Generative AI System Design Interview
  1. 01Introduction and Overview43 min
  2. 02Gmail Smart Compose36 min
  3. 03Google Translate25 min
  4. 04ChatGPT: Personal Assistant Chatbot41 min
  5. 05Image Captioning18 min
  6. 06Retrieval-Augmented Generation24 min
  7. 07Realistic Face Generation28 min
  8. 08High-Resolution Image Synthesis17 min
  9. 09Text-to-Image Generation25 min
  10. 10Personalized Headshot Generation21 min
  11. 11Text-to-Video Generation22 min
Vol. 06Mobile System Design Interview
  1. 01Introduction7 min
  2. 02A Framework for Mobile SD Interviews5 min
  3. 03News Feed App40 min
  4. 04Chat App36 min
  5. 05Stock Trading App19 min
  6. 06Pagination Library25 min
  7. 07Hotel Reservation App22 min
  8. 08Google Drive App22 min
  9. 09Youtube App26 min
  10. 10Mobile System Design Building Blocks78 min
  11. 11Quick Reference Cheat Sheet for MSD Interview3 min