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System-design-interview projects on GitHub
Study guides and visual notes for system design interviews.
As of , the most-starred System-design-interview projects on GitHub are system-design-101 (90.5K stars), awesome-scalability (74.8K stars) and system-design (46.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 7 System-design-interview repositories with 292.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was system-design-notes, with +57 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
+57system-design-notes
liquidslr/system-design-notes · ★ 26.6KA set of study notes summarizing the 'System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide' books (Volumes 1 and 2), covering common system design interview topics chapter by chapter.
+25awesome-scalability
binhnguyennus/awesome-scalability · ★ 74.8KA curated, continuously updated reading list of articles, case studies, and talks from engineers at companies like Netflix, Uber, Facebook, and Amazon, showing concrete patterns for building scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems.
+23system-design-academy
systemdesign42/system-design-academy · ★ 29.4KA curated collection of system design case studies, fundamentals, interview prep, and AI engineering resources, organized as a big reference list tied to a newsletter.
+22system-design-101
ByteByteGoHq/system-design-101 · ★ 90.5KA free, visual collection of short explainers and cheat sheets covering core system design concepts (APIs, databases, caching, message queues, real-world company architectures) to help you understand how production systems work and prepare for system design interviews.
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- 90.5K
#1 · ByteByteGoHq/system-design-101system-design-101
A free, visual collection of short explainers and cheat sheets covering core system design concepts (APIs, databases, caching, message queues, real-world company architectures) to help you understand how production systems work and prepare for system design interviews.
- 74.8K
#2 · binhnguyennus/awesome-scalabilityawesome-scalability
A curated, continuously updated reading list of articles, case studies, and talks from engineers at companies like Netflix, Uber, Facebook, and Amazon, showing concrete patterns for building scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems.
- 46.6K
#3 · karanpratapsingh/system-designsystem-design
It is a free course and ebook that teaches how to design large-scale systems and prepares readers for system design interviews.
- 4

system-design-academy
29.4Ksystemdesign42/system-design-academyA curated collection of system design case studies, fundamentals, interview prep, and AI engineering resources, organized as a big reference list tied to a newsletter.
- 5

system-design-notes
26.6Kliquidslr/system-design-notesA set of study notes summarizing the 'System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide' books (Volumes 1 and 2), covering common system design interview topics chapter by chapter.
- 6

system-design-interview
23.9Kcheckcheckzz/system-design-interviewA curated guide for preparing system design interviews at IT companies, covering interview tips, basic system design knowledge, engineering blogs, real-world architectures, and common design questions with reference material.
- 7

ai-system-design
672amitshekhariitbhu/ai-system-design · MarkdownA free, open-source guide that teaches AI System Design step by step: how to combine GPUs, inference servers, caches, vector databases, AI agents, guardrails, and evals into one system that is fast, cheap, reliable, and safe.
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