Top-K System Design Interview Breakdown w/ Ex-Meta Senior Manager

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Full written breakdown: https://hellointerview.com/youtube/to... 💪 Practice this problem with live AI feedback: https://hellointerview.com/practice/y... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A step-by-step breakdown of the popular FAANG+ system design interview question, design a service to calculate the top-k Youtube videos by view, which is asked at top companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:47 Delivery Framework 00:06:33 Requirements 00:19:25 Core Entities and API 00:23:19 High Level Design 00:32:14 Core Deep Dive: Read Latency 00:37:45 Core Deep Dive: Database write optimizations 00:53:24 Core Deep Dive: Query optimizations 01:02:46 Variation: Sliding Windows 01:11:05 Variation: Approximate Solutions 01:25:08 Discussion: Specialized Databases 01:30:20 Wrap-up Stefan, a former Meta senior manager and current co-founder of Hello Interview, walks through the problem from the perspective of an interviewer who has asked it well over 50 times. Excalidraw for this video: https://link.excalidraw.com/l/56zGeHi... Resources: 1. Detailed write up of the problem: https://www.hellointerview.com/learn/... 2. Event Driven Architectures: https://www.hellointerview.com/blog/e... 3. System Design In a Hurry: https://www.hellointerview.com/learn/... 4. Vote for the question you want us to do next: https://www.hellointerview.com/learn/... Connect with me on LinkedIn:   / stefanmai   Good luck with your upcoming interviews!