Navigating the New Grad SWE Job Hunt: System Design Interviews - Part 2

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Part 2 of a system design interview guide for new grad SWEs. Covers caching (TTL, write strategies, eviction policies), Content Delivery Networks, reverse proxies and load balancers (round robin, consistent hashing), and database fundamentals (SQL vs NoSQL, ACID properties). Explains core concepts with definitions, real-world examples, and popular tools like Redis, Memcached, PostgreSQL, and Nginx.

• •Explains caching strategies, TTL, write-through/write-back, and eviction policies with practical trade-offs
• •Covers proxies, load balancers, and consistent hashing for distributed system design
• •Provides SQL vs NoSQL comparison with ACID properties and real-world tool recommendations

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