According to community guides and cheat sheets, you should focus on these six areas to ace the interview: donnemartin/system-design-primer: Learn how to ... - GitHub

Monolithic vs. Microservices, REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC, SQL vs. NoSQL, caching strategies (Write-through, Write-around, Cache-aside), and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ). 3. Tech Interview Handbook (by Yangshun Tay)

The title "Acing The System Design Interview" implies a strategic approach rather than an encyclopedic one. Open-source PDFs on GitHub often deconstruct the interview into three pillars:

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