system-design-resources: Find System Design Reading and Videos

Overview

InterviewReady's system-design-resources is a categorized reading list for learning about system design through external articles, research papers, videos, documentation, and open-source projects. It brings together material on topics ranging from caching and databases to service meshes, stream processing, and distributed consensus.

Use it as a starting point when you need references for a particular architecture concept or want a broad study map. The repository is a resource index rather than a course or an implementation, so readers follow the linked material for explanations and examples.

Key Features

• Organizes links across dozens of system design and distributed systems topics.
• Covers practical architecture examples, including video processing, messaging, databases, and load balancing.
• Includes foundational concepts such as capacity estimation, caching, replication, and consensus.
• Mixes formats, including engineering articles, academic papers, videos, documentation, and source repositories.
• Provides dedicated material relevant to system design interviews, including InterviewReady videos and an online judge.
• Links to further reading such as Designing Data-Intensive Applications and selected white papers.

Use Cases

• Interview candidates can use the topic index to find references while preparing system design answers.
• Software engineers can look up examples and background reading when evaluating an architecture choice.
• Students learning distributed systems can build a study plan from the categorized links.
• Engineering teams can use the list to find relevant papers or case studies during design discussions.

Getting Started

Browse the README and choose a topic from its table of contents. No installation is required.

Considerations

• This repository curates external resources; it does not provide a structured course, original implementations, or a unified set of explanations.
• The depth and format vary by link, and some resources may require additional context or may change over time.
• The repository is licensed under GPL-3.0. Check the license before reusing repository content.