System design resources thread

The GitHub repository highlighted in the thread is ashishps1/awesome-system-design-resources, which currently shows roughly 35.2k stars on GitHub and recent commits within the last month. (github.com) That repository includes a dedicated "Interview Problems by Difficulty" section that categorizes canonical system‑design prompts into Easy/Medium/Hard, matching community-curated lists that consolidate around 40 core system‑design questions used in FAANG interview prep. (deepwiki.com) The bundle also links to MIT’s “Missing Semester” materials and video lectures — the official Missing Semester site hosts lecture notes and tooling videos covering shell tools, Git, debugging and a Cloud Computing lecture dated Feb 24, 2025 in the 2024/2025 schedule. (missing.csail.mit.edu) Among the roughly 15 case studies called out in the thread are production architectures for Google Search (crawling → indexing → serving at web scale), Apache Kafka as a high‑throughput distributed event streaming platform, and Uber’s payments platform (active‑active architecture and exactly‑once processing goals). (developers.google.com) Several items in the collection supply diagrams, cheat‑sheets, and implementation notes that trace the same infrastructure patterns interviewers at Google, Meta and Amazon expect (e.g., CDN/caching, pub/sub, consistent hashing, sharding) and are mirrored across other curated system‑design repos and case‑study aggregators. (github.com) Community mirrors and guides tied to the thread (including the repo’s embedded links and external writeups) point learners to hands‑on walkthroughs and production writeups that explain scaling trade‑offs, latency/throughput calculations, and architecture diagrams used by major platforms. (codesandbox.io)