Today's system design mock interview: "Design Google Drive."

Candidate: Alex, engineering manager (exShopify) and now a coach on our platform.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:36 Question "Design a filesharing system like Dropbox, Google Drive, etc"
00:55 1. Clarifications and requirements
09:51 2. Highlevel design (components)
13:08 2. Highlevel design (APIs)
19:20 3. Drilldown (client responsibilities)
22:09 3. Drilldown (schema)
29:41 3. Drilldown (upload flow)
33:53 3. Drilldown (download flow)
36:24 4. Refinements (regionality)
37:45 4. Refinements (S3)
39:22 4. Refinements (CDN)
40:13 4. Refinements (versioning)
41:00 4. Refinements (encryption)
41:45 4. Refinements (database)
42:42 5. Followup (read vs write)
44:07 5. Followup (folders)
47:35 6. Outro

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