Getting severly bogged down by so much information

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Mar 21 4 Comments

I want to prepare for senior SDE roles at FAANG. I have 8 years of experience and some design experience but its nothing like I have worked on very hard core system designs in real life , say working on a database (which I consider an epitome in engineering) . Now my problem is when I am youtube watching a design talk (say how they scaled slack etc etc), on the side bar u get recommendations for so many interesting talks that u feel like peeking all of them only to stress yourself resulting in less to no learning.

How to stay away from this ? Is there a silver bullet in system design ? should I just keep myself upto DDIA and Groking the system design ?

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    Designing Data intensive Applications mostly and educative.io. Also found some videos by Tim Berglund that are good summaries.
    Mar 21 0
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    can you please tell me how are you doing your system design preparation ?
    Mar 21 1
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      Grokking is good start... start interviewing with small companies who ask system design or mock interviews

      I think yt is good once you have some knowledge and system design also have patterns like leetcode
      Mar 21
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    Time boxing works for me. So pre-allocate say, 2 hours to study one topic, after that have the discipline to move on the next. You can add some videos to watch later - if that helps with the FOMO
    Mar 21 0