Get my system design playbook for FREE on newsletter signup:Share this post & I’ll send you some rewards for the referrals.Traditional system design interviews tend to focus on backend architecture:API servers, databases, caching layers, load balancers, and service-oriented designs.“Front-end” system design, by contrast, deals with the problems of scale and complexity that manifest in the browser or client environment.Instead of optimizing for query latency or data replication, the focus shifts to rendering efficiency, client structure, network utilization, and managing data consistency between the client and server.System design interviews matter because they reveal how well an engineer can think beyond individual components and consider the entire user experience as a system. |
