ashishps1/awesome-system-design-resources
Learn System Design concepts and prepare for interviews using free resources.
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Where it stands
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Ranks #1 among Education repositories tracked this week, and #5 over the last 30 days; #345 of 1,950 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 18%).
The project lists 4 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a curated collection of free resources to learn system design concepts and prepare for technical interviews.
- Offers comprehensive coverage of core system design topics, practical interview problems, and real-world architectural patterns in one place.
- Use for mastering fundamental system design principles like scalability, availability, and distributed systems for software engineering interviews.
- Use for exploring detailed design problems of popular applications such as WhatsApp, Netflix, and Uber to understand real-world system architectures.
- Use for accessing curated articles, papers, and videos to deepen knowledge of advanced distributed systems and microservices concepts.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
GPL 3.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
- No commits in the last six months (last push Feb 2026).
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
This repository contains free resources to learn System Design concepts and prepare for interviews.
👉 Subscribe to my AlgoMaster Newsletter and get a FREE System Design Interview Handbook in your inbox.
✅ If you are new to System Design, start here: System Design was HARD until I Learned these 30 Concepts
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
8.8K+322
Open issues
19+5
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| mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis | 10.1K | +809 | 14 | — |
| freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp | 456.6K | +0 | 75 | — |
| ashishps1/awesome-system-design-resources | 42.2K | +0 | 7 | — |
| luongnv89/claude-howto | 41.7K | +0 | 75 | 124 days ago |
| google/comprehensive-rust | 33.4K | +0 | 45 | — |
| tmrts/go-patterns | 28.3K | +0 | 75 | — |
| Category median | 33.4K | +0 | 75 | — |
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