Ace Your FAANG System Design Interview like Google & Amazon: The 8 Whitepapers You Must Read
If you want to crack the system design interview at Google, Amazon, or any other FAANG company? Forget expensive bootcamps and generic YouTube tutorials, real engineering wisdom comes from the people who built the world’s most scalable systems. And guess what? They wrote it all down in whitepapers.
This article breaks down 8 legendary whitepapers that shaped modern databases and distributed systems. From Google Bigtable’s NoSQL foundation to Amazon Dynamo’s leaderless replication, and from Spanner’s globally consistent transactions to Raft’s consensus magic, we’ll explain why these papers matter, what you’ll learn from them, and how they’ll give you an edge in your system design interview.
If you’ve ever wondered why Google can run petabyte-scale databases, how Amazon keeps your shopping cart from vanishing, or how distributed systems maintain consistency without melting down, this is the article for you.
Grab your coffee, sit back, and get ready to level up your system design skills because these papers will teach you more than any overpriced bootcamp ever could. 🚀