Reference
Numbers and further reading
You will sometimes be asked for back-of-the-envelope estimates. These tables and reading lists are handy to keep close.
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Powers of two
Handy for back-of-the-envelope estimates.
1 min read02Latency numbers
From an L1 cache hit to a trans-Atlantic round trip.
1 min read03Real-world architectures
MapReduce, Bigtable, Kafka, Dynamo and other systems worth studying.
1 min read04Company architectures
How Netflix, Twitter, Uber and others are put together.
1 min read05Engineering blogs
Read the blog of the company you are interviewing with.
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