The system design interview is considered to be the most complex and most difficult technical job interview by many. This book provides a step-by-step framework on how to tackle a system design question. It includes many real-world examples to illustrate the systematic approach with detailed steps that you can follow.

What's inside?

• An insider's take on what interviewers really look for and why.

• A 4-step framework for solving any system design interview question.

• 15 real system design interview questions with detailed solutions.

• 188 diagrams to visually explain how different systems work.

Like the best-selling Black Hat Python, Black Hat Go explores the darker side of the popular Go programming language. This collection of short scripts will help you test your systems, build and automate tools to fit your needs, and improve your offensive security skillset.

Black Hat Go explores the darker side of Go, the popular programming language revered by hackers for its simplicity, efficiency, and reliability. It provides an arsenal of practical tactics from the perspective of security practitioners and hackers to help you test your systems, build and automate tools to fit your needs, and improve your offensive security skillset, all using the power of Go.

You'll begin your journey with a basic overview of Go's syntax and philosophy and then start to explore examples that you can leverage for tool development, including common network protocols like HTTP, DNS, and SMB. You'll then dig into various tactics and problems that penetration testers encounter, addressing things like data pilfering, packet sniffing, and exploit development. You'll create dynamic, pluggable tools before diving into cryptography, attacking Microsoft Windows, and implementing steganography.

Are you ready to add to your arsenal of security tools? Then let's Go!

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced.

With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow, streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.

Cracking the Coding Interview is here to help you through the process of getting a top software developer job. The author, a software engineer herself, understands the challenges of being asked to create brilliant algorithms on the spot and write flawless code on a whiteboard. Having experienced these interviews from both sides of the table, she shares her knowledge in this deeply technical book.

The book includes 189 real programming interview questions, which reflect what is truly being asked at the top companies, ensuring that you can be as prepared as possible. It walks you through how to derive each solution, so you can learn how to get there yourself. It provides hints on how to solve each question, similar to what you would receive in a real interview, and outlines five proven strategies to tackle algorithm questions, helping you to solve problems you haven't seen before.

In addition to core computer science concepts, the book offers insight into the hiring practices of top companies like Google and Facebook, including how to prepare for the soft side of the interview and the behavioral questions. Whether you're an interviewer looking for great questions or a candidate preparing to ace your interviews, this book is an invaluable tool for success.

Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think offers a unique and insightful look into the minds of leading computer scientists. Through case studies, readers have the opportunity to observe how experts tackle difficult problems in software development, revealing the carefully crafted solutions to high-profile projects. You'll be able to look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts, gaining insight into their thought processes as they navigate through the architecture of their projects, the tradeoffs involved, and the occasions when breaking the rules is necessary.

This book is not your typical design patterns manual or a rigid software engineering doctrine. Instead, it presents a series of narratives that showcase how master coders approach their work. All author royalties from this book will be donated to Amnesty International, making it not just an educational read, but also one that contributes to a global cause.