I personally prefer the animations and basic concepts. All too often as developers we're forced to jump into more advanced concepts before we even understand the basics. I highly encourage keeping it as basic and simple as possible. This first video has been a very welcome breath of fresh air!
Based on my personal experience, keeping it simple on an interview will not be satisfiable enough, it does require the level of explanation my dude is doing here. bottomline: I do agree with your point that keeping it ELI 5 it creates way more effective learning process, but not effective for an interview processes.
You are my favorite channel oN YT. I love this. Thank you for sharing this stuff. I’ve been a Systems Admin/Engineer for decades. Now I’m a Software Engineer and your channel is such a gift to people like me.
Subscribed! Just wanna let you know that thanks to the first volume of your book, I got 2 new grad offers (yep some companies ask new grads system design questions these days). Look forward to reading the second book and watching videos on this channel!
You all have come a long way, but even this first video is top tier. This also happens to be a very common interview question, so pretty much the best place to start.
That's very insightful from you to share your knowledge with the community in another media. Certainly, keeping that quality of animations and contextual description, RU-vid you help you read way more people and potentially make you find your goals! Congratulations on the final product! 👏 Keep it simple enough for newcomers and technically enough for experts. BTW: how did you make those animations? Did you any tools? I really like it. 😁
I hope you won't lock your content after sometime as mostly people do . You can monetize it for ads as it will still allow financially unable people to learn it for free . Awesome content there man!! Keep up the good work.
True, but early on it was universal. " An early (1993) draft of the HTML Specification[11] referred to "Universal" Resource Locators. This was dropped some time between June 1994 (RFC 1630) and October 1994 (draft-ietf-uri-url-08.txt).[12] In his book Weaving the Web, Berners-Lee emphasizes his preference for the original inclusion of "universal" in the expansion rather than the word "uniform", to which it was later changed, and he gives a brief account of the contention that led to the change." -- wikipedia
Been following on LinkedIn for a while, so happy to see this!! And I thought your materials were clear on LinkedIn. It's even clearer on video. Thanks!
Great! I've read the first version of your System Design book, and I think this videos are a complement for that content. I like as you maintain these explanations clear and simple. I will keep continue enjoying these great videos.
The content was good and clear to understand. What I would like is to have a detailed video on the connection setup mechanism like what is TCP (and other options) and how does it work and how requests are made over TCP (or some other type). Also, the pace could be a little faster, although this video was short but in case you make longer videos, then a bit faster pace would be good. Having said that, I love your work so all the best for the channel.
Yes, the pace was a bit slow. I watched it 1.5x. I think it is fine if keeps it the same way if anyone wants to go slow. If someone wants to go fast, they can always increase the speed.
I like the video. I was honestly hoping for a video going into excruciating detail about the topic so I can show it to people instead of explaining the processes myself many times. This was a decent overview anyhow.
Saw your post on LinkedIn and received the email and I subscribed BLAZING FAST. Love you way of teaching and how you break things down and make it easy to digest. My Feedback is that I loved the video and for visual learners its very appreciated the effort that goes into the animations and transitions to bring the idea to life instead of just a block of text or a static image for 10 minutes. So really enjoyed the effort into the visual content.
When the content is great -> You don't have to ask for it. Viewers will automatically Subscribe and Like. I liked the video before even watching it because I have read you book and followed LinkedIn posts.
I'm glad you have created this channel. Let me give you some feedback. This content is 101. Some of us need more advanced contents. Also animations seems costly. I prefer more detailed content over fancy animations in case if I'm right about the cost of animations. Sometimes creators put both advanced information and basic information in same video. And it is boring for advanced people to watch basic stuff. Just wanted to remind that for future videos. I believe dividing content by target audience is golden and the way to higher retention rates.
I can't believe anyone has the chutzpah to start a RU-vid channel this year when there already many well-established good ones out there. I'm glad you did. This video is good. The videos that followed are great. The keys of quality you discovered are short, animated, good voice, and relevant topic.
I have your two books and I was looking for the video version of it. I am so happy to find this channel! Videos are great because it's even more efficient for me to memorize stuff than books. My one request is that you could speak a bit upbeat with rhythm. Maybe this is my personal preference. Even without that I still really love this series and I really appreciate you started this!!!
Awesome illustrations. I'm sort of a beginner to software development, and I completely understood this video. Although, it won't hurt to go a little more in depth, because I literally understood everything xD.
Great video! I just subscribed to the channel. Your book helped me to prepare for Amazon system design interview, and the knowledge I got was really helpful. :)
I am doing your online material course and in parallel watching these videos, they are too good and animated is just on point. Looking forward to a video series on System Design. Would love to see videos on Networking and OS concepts.
As someone familiar with these concepts, i found this pretty useful for a quick recap, however it will be difficult for someone without prior knowledge to follow what's exactly happening in 5 minute shorts like this. Anyways looking forward for your future videos!
Great video I got asked in an interview for PM precisely what you explained here and can see that learning from your videos is a great way to improve my technical understanding.
Nice clear talking, possibly valuable in the consulting side of IT (enterprises, govt) to remind layman that there is a reason why they should and cannot call the shots (though they can from a user experience perspective).
Big fan of your work, your book, your posts on Linkedin and Twitter. Really liked it and look for more. Also I would like if you can do one video where you show us how you do your beautiful diagrams. Brilliant, looking forward to more.
Congrats! Nice animated diagrams, easy and quick to understand, good calm speaking (for non-english native speakers is quite important), all very clear! When the next video will be released?!
Thanks Alex for sharing the content on RU-vid . Indeed an amazing initiative. Video animations are great and informative and voice is pretty loud and clear. Thank again for all your effort. Looking forward to see more videos.
Nice and clear video, this is a great idea to explain specific concepts in an animated way, every developer no matter his skills would understand it. Congratulations and keep this method for further videos!
Great video in terms of quality of the context. As a feedback I would suggest going into slightly advanced concepts like SSL handshake and SSL sessions etc.
Great video, it would be better if you are reading the notes more properly as you are illustrating the concepts. It is a great first video and I believe the quality will only get better.
Great video! Keeping videos to 5-10 minutes is a good idea. Also, you guys have a few blogs around HTTP. Would be great if links to topics you're covering in the video could be added to the description. Also, would love to know the tools used to make the diagram and the video!
Hi Alex, I love your content. As a recommendation - it would be helpful if there was a meaningful structure to your playlists. (e. g., The Fundamentals Playlist is in logical order in a building block fashion)
