Interview prep that answers like an engineer

Real interview questions with answers you can say out loud: the core claim first, then the production trade-off. Read a deck as a list, or drill it as flashcards and grade yourself; progress stays on this device, no account. Every answer links back into the tracks and guides when you want the long version.

Q · system design deck

Where does the cache go, and who invalidates it?

A · say it out loud

As close to the reader as staleness allows. The writer owns invalidation: write-through for correctness, TTL as the backstop.

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