# NirmalSilwal/system-design-resources

Contains system design materials to prepare for system design interviews 🚩👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻

Repository: https://github.com/NirmalSilwal/system-design-resources
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nirmalsilwal-system-design-resources
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: system-design, design, design-patterns, interview, system, google-file-system, design-interviews, data-intensive-applicatoin, programming, head-first-design-patterns, head-first-java, java, educativeio, tech-blog, tech-talks, grokking-system-design, scalability, microservices, design-thinking
Last push: 2023-04-21T17:33:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2175, "days_push": 1230, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1353, forks 404 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:28.630663+00:00)

## What it is
A curated collection of links and materials for learning system design and preparing for system design interviews. It covers core concepts like caching, sharding, load balancing, replication, CAP theorem, and scalability with links to articles, courses, and tech talks.

## Use cases
- prepare for a system design interview
- learn how to design large-scale distributed systems
- find resources explaining caching and load balancing
- understand sharding and data partitioning
- study SQL vs NoSQL tradeoffs
- review CAP theorem before an interview

## When to choose
- you are preparing for system design interviews at product-based companies
- you want a single curated list of system design learning materials
- you are a beginner learning scalable system fundamentals

## When to avoid
- you need runnable code or a working tool rather than reading material
- you want an interactive course with hands-on exercises
- you need up-to-date content, as the repository was last released in 2023

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, microservices, tutorials, awesome-lists
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: system-design, interview-preparation, scalability, microservices, curated-resources, distributed-systems

## Member repositories
- NirmalSilwal/system-design-resources (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:28.630663+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:42:05.508555+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/NirmalSilwal/system-design-resources (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:28.630663+00:00, sha ce7a2d96c944)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.