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System Design Interview - An insider's guide

Alex Xu · 2020

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Gergely Orosz recommends it
I've so far not seen good book resources to prepare for the systems design / architecture interview. This book from Alex Xu is the most promising one as of yet.

on blog.pragmaticengineer.com · 16 Dec 2024

This book on rcmnd →

That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.