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CTCI System Design Notes

Original notes inspired by the system design chapter of Cracking the Coding Interview, focused on turning an open-ended prompt into a scoped, scalable, and defensible design. This is a private study aid, not a reproduction of the book.

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Notes

  1. 1CTCI system design: a repeatable interview loop
  2. 2Capacity sketch: turn requirements into pressure
  3. 3Architecture: follow the data through the system
  4. 4Data and consistency choices
  5. 5Reliability, security, and operations
  6. 6Worked design: a read-later link service