system design

2) design
解这种题是个*交流*的过程，或者说是给出方案然后获取反馈的不断循环的过程。
一般的流程：
首先你要问清楚requirement；
然后可以讲一下high level architecture，就是分成哪几个component，互相之间如果
interact，在白板上画一画；
之后面试官可能会让你深入某个component detail讨论；
也有可能变换requirement让你重新设计

另外，f家还喜欢让你估算机器之类的，做一些back-of-envelopme calculation。所以
最好对一些计算机相关的基本常数，fb的用户量等等有个大概的了解。

准备的时候建议看看fb的design高频题。一方面有可能面试的时候刚好碰到这几个
topic，另一方面其实很多design都是相通的。
之前有个帖子讲这个，原帖已经被删了，这儿有个备份http://blog.csdn.net/sigh1988/article/details/9790337

另外补充一点我收集的材料

a) 首先你可以从整体上了解一下facebook的architecture
http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/What-is-Facebooks-arc
http://www.ece.lsu.edu/hpca-18/files/HPCA2012_Facebook_Keynote.
http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/What-have-been-Facebo
除了下面给出的一些资料，fb engineering page里还有很多不错的内容
https://www.facebook.com/Engineering

b) news feed
这里有个talk
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Facebook-News-Feed
对应的slides
http://readme.skplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/0-3_Faceb
还有一些quora上的讨论
http://www.quora.com/Activity-Streams/What-are-the-scaling-issu
http://www.quora.com/What-are-best-practices-for-building-somet
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-storage-solution-for-buil

c) facebook chat
这里有两个notes，其中第二个里面还有相应的tech talk links
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/facebook-chat/
14218138919
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/chat-stability-and-
scalability/51412338919

d) typeahead search & graph search
关于typeahead search的tech talk和notes
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=432864835468
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=365915113919
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=389105248919

关于graph search的paper, tech talk, notes。其中paper很值得一看。
http://db.disi.unitn.eu/pages/VLDBProgram/pdf/industry/p871-cur
https://newsroom.fb.com/Photos-and-B-Roll/4362/Graph-Search-Whiteboard
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151240856103920
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151347573598920
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151361720763920
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151432733048920
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151755593228920

e) facebook messages
两个tech talks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAuwAHWpzPc
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/HBase-at-Facebook
以及eng notes
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150148835363920
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150162742108920

f) photo storage
相关的papers和notes
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi10/finding-needle-haystack-facebooks-
photo-storage
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Beaver.pdf
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi10/tech/slides/beaver.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919

g) social graph data store
相关的note, video, paper
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/tao-the-power-of-the-
graph/10151525983993920
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc13/technical-sessions/presentation/
bronson
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/courses/fall2013/static/papers/117

h) tiny URL
这里有一些讨论
http://n00tc0d3r.blogspot.com/2013/09/big-data-tinyurl.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/742013/how-to-code-a-url-sho
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3376163/what-are-the-things-

i) POI
参考这里
http://www.slideshare.net/mmalone/scaling-gis-data-in-nonrelati
http://www.mitbbs.ca/article_t/JobHunting/32476139.html