| Goal | Action | |------|--------| | | Use donnemartin/system-design-primer | | Practice with Alex Xu’s exact questions | Buy Volume 1 (URL shortener, news feed, etc.) — worth it | | Get community notes | Star weiwei123/system-design-interview | | Diagrams & visuals | Follow ByteByteGo on YouTube |
💡 Use GitHub for summaries, flashcards, and diagrams , but get the original book legally. Pair it with YouTube mock interviews and Alex Xu's second volume for deep dives.
These repositories provide summaries, visual guides, and references based on his books.