--- title: System Design CheatSheet for Interview | daily.dev description: This post provides a comprehensive cheatsheet of essential system design concepts commonly covered in interviews. Topics include REST API, networking, OAuth &... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-cheatsheet-for-interview-teul0ryab twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: System Design CheatSheet for Interview | daily.dev og:description: This post provides a comprehensive cheatsheet of essential system design concepts commonly covered in interviews. 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It's aimed at helping readers quickly revise these concepts before an interview. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@benn** · 8 upvotes > CheatSheets are behind a paywall :( **@amizzo** · 7 upvotes >  > > This is backwards **@clebiovieira** · 3 upvotes > Every diagram when clicked go to bybytego home page, instead of open the diagram origin. **@lucacg** · 1 upvotes > Paywall alert **@aobregon** · 1 upvotes > **What a great summary!!!***, extremely grateful ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-cheatsheet-for-interview-teul0ryab) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"System Design CheatSheet for Interview","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-cheatsheet-for-interview-teul0ryab","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-cheatsheet-for-interview-teul0ryab"},"datePublished":"2025-01-03T15:46:31.138Z","dateModified":"2025-01-03T15:46:45.487Z","description":"This post provides a comprehensive cheatsheet of essential system design concepts commonly covered in interviews. 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