trekhleb / trekhleb/trekhleb.github.io
Deep-dive resource proposal for the web crawler sketch
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Description
Hi Oleksii - I reviewed the System Design Sketches page and the source repository before proposing a change. The crawler sketch is compact but covers the right backbone: requirements and non-functional constraints, URL frontier, DNS and fetching, extraction, storage, deduplication, and politeness.
Would a crawler-specific interview deep dive be useful as optional further reading beneath that sketch?
PracHub's Web Crawler System Design Interview guide covers frontier scheduling, per-host politeness, robots.txt, duplicate URL and content detection, retries, failure isolation, and the trade-offs candidates should explain aloud.
https://prachub.com/resources/web-crawler-system-design
The sketch would remain the fast visual overview; the proposed link would only serve readers who want to practice interviewer follow-ups. I would make the smallest possible edit in the existing format and am checking scope before opening a PR. No reciprocal link is expected.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the System Design Sketches page and its source repository, locate the web crawler sketch, and inspect how optional further-reading links are formatted. Add the PracHub web crawler guide beneath that sketch using the existing format, then verify that the link appears correctly and the sketch remains a concise visual overview.
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Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 72/100