Chapter 1 — Interview Methodology
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| Author | Amit Singh |
| Scope | system-design |
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Chapter 3 — Architecture Reviews: Defending Decisions
Handling interviewer pushback and "what if 10x scale" challenges without abandoning a defensible design under pressure.
Chapter 2 — Whiteboarding & Communication
Diagramming and narrating a design out loud so an interviewer can follow the trade-off reasoning, not just the final architecture.
Chapter 4 — Alerting Systems
Multi-window burn-rate alerts, recording rules, routing, and deduplication as the difference between an actionable page and noise.
Chapter 3 — Monitoring at Scale
Prometheus, Mimir, Cortex, and Thanos as the horizontally-scaled answer to a single Prometheus instance running out of room.