Grokking the System Design Interview: Why the Original Course Still Wins

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The article discusses the original course 'Grokking the System Design Interview' and its significance in preparing for system design interviews. It clarifies the confusion surrounding various courses that use similar names but are essentially copies of the original. The original course, created by Arslan Ahmad, has evolved into a comprehensive resource with video lessons and interactive diagrams, distinguishing it from its imitations.

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▪The original course, 'Grokking the System Design Interview,' was created by Arslan Ahmad and is hosted on DesignGurus.io.
▪Many other resources claiming to be 'grokking system design' are actually copies or forks of this original course.
▪The current version of the course includes 83 lessons, 237 quizzes, and around 20 hours of content with interactive elements.

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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 34386) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Ritesh Agarwal Posted on May 30 Grokking the System Design Interview: Why the Original Course Still Wins #interview #career #systemdesign #programming If you have spent any time prepping for system design interviews, you have run into the phrase "grokking system design." Probably a dozen times. There is a course with that name, a near-identical course on another platform, GitHub repos that fork the same notes, and a portal or two that orbit the same material. They all look similar.

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