Kit de entrevista de diseño de sistemas
Practicar diseño de sistemas paso a paso: estimación, patrones de resiliencia y 15 diseños de referencia, del acortador de URL y el limitador de tasa a la cola de mensajes, reservas y servicio de LLM.
Aprendizaje
Back-of-Envelope Estimation and Capacity Model Template
CompletaReference latency and unit tables, assumptions register, QPS, storage, bandwidth, cache, server and cost formulas, worked example, sensitivity, traceability
Jeff Dean latency numbers (LADIS 2009)Resilience and Load Shedding Design Template (Retries, Circuit Breakers)
CompletaFailure model, deadlines, retries with jitter and budgets, circuit breakers, bulkheads, backpressure, criticality-based shedding, degradation, fault tests
Google SRE book ch. 21-22; Amazon Builders' LibrarySystem Design Document Template
CompletaSystem design at scale – requirements, capacity estimates (KaTeX), API, data model, HLD, deep dives, reliability, cost, trade-offs
Diseños de referencia
URL Shortener System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaCapacity (KaTeX), API, base62 key generation and collisions, 301 vs 302, caching, click analytics, abuse protection, custom aliases, expiry, multi-region
RFC 9110 (redirect status codes)Rate Limiter System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaDistributed rate limiter: token bucket vs window algorithms, atomic Redis scripts, multi-region shares, 429 headers, fail-open
Distributed Key-Value Store System Design Template (Dynamo-Style)
CompletaConsistent hashing, vnodes, quorums (R+W>N), vector clocks vs LWW, hinted handoff, Merkle anti-entropy, gossip, LSM compaction, cache eviction, hot keys
Dynamo (DeCandia et al., SOSP 2007)Distributed Message Queue System Design Template (Kafka-Style Log)
CompletaPartitions, log segments, retention, acks and idempotence, consumer groups, offsets, delivery semantics, ordering, ISR replication, backpressure, DLQ, schemas
Apache Kafka 4.3 documentation; Kafka paper (NetDB 2011)News Feed System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaSocial feed: hybrid fan-out on write and read, celebrity threshold, ranking pipeline, feed cache, snapshot pagination, media
Chat System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaReal-time 1:1 and group chat: WebSocket gateways, per-conversation ordering, fan-out, receipts, offline sync, push, E2EE
Notification Service System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaPush, email, SMS and in-app: templates, preferences and opt-out, priority queues, caps, provider failover, retries, dedup
Ticket and Hotel Booking System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaSeat and room inventory, holds with TTL, overbooking math, conditional writes, idempotency, payment saga, waiting room, search vs booking paths
Search Autocomplete System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaTypeahead: trie/FST/edge n-gram index, popularity and recency ranking, query-log pipeline, edge cache, latency budget, safety
Job Scheduler System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaDistributed scheduler: cron, delayed and one-off jobs, leases and visibility timeouts, fencing, idempotent handlers, retries, DLQ
Payment Ledger System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaPayments and double-entry ledger: idempotency keys, payment state machine, PSPs, outbox, reconciliation, audit, PCI DSS scope
Ride-Hailing Dispatch System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaRide matching: location ingestion, H3/geohash index, batched matching, ETA, trip state machine, single assignment, surge note
Video Streaming System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaVideo upload and ABR streaming: chunked transcoding, renditions ladder, CMAF HLS/DASH, CDN, DRM note, view counts, storage tiers
Collaborative Editing System Design Template (Reference Design)
CompletaReal-time co-editing: OT vs CRDT, sequence CRDT, state-vector sync, presence, offline merge, snapshots and compaction, access
LLM Inference Serving and Vector Search Platform Design Template
CompletaGateway, router, continuous batching, paged KV cache, GPU memory and throughput math, TTFT/TPOT SLOs, autoscaling, quantization, HNSW/IVF, cost per token
PagedAttention (Kwon et al., SOSP 2023)Distributed Unique ID Generator System Design Template
CompletaUUIDv4 and v7 per RFC 9562, Snowflake 41/10/12 layout, clock skew and backwards clocks, leased worker IDs, index locality, 53-bit JS limit, ticket servers
RFC 9562 (May 2024)Gaming Leaderboard System Design Template
CompletaIntroductory: sorted sets, time-encoded tie breaking within 53 bits, top N and my rank, sharded ranks, friends boards, seasonal resets, anti-cheat boundary
Distributed Cache System Design Template
CompletaDistributed cache: cache-aside, delete on write, leases against herds, commit-log invalidation across regions, slot maps, hot keys, gutter pool, warm-up
Photo Sharing System Design Template
CompletaResumable direct upload, media pipeline, display sizes, storage tiers, 64-bit time-sortable ids, sharded PostgreSQL, celebrity fan-out, CDN
Full-Text Search Engine System Design Template
CompletaInverted index, segments, real-time ingestion vs queries, document and time sharding, replicas, BM25 plus reranker, autocomplete boundary, relevance evaluation
Maps and Navigation System Design Template
CompletaVector tiles and CDN, region-sharded routing graph with customizable contraction hierarchies, live-traffic ETA, rerouting, geocoding, offline packs