system-design-primer
Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.
Growth we measured
6 daily star snapshots stored by whatstrending.ai, 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-08. GitHub shows today's number; this is the movement behind it.
- Ranked #7 by stars among the 954 repos we snapshot, using the latest star count we recorded for each.
How this is measured. whatstrending.ai stores its own daily star and fork snapshot for every repo in its trending index. Every figure above is a delta between two of those stored rows — 6 snapshots for donnemartin/system-design-primer between 2026-08-03 and 2026-08-08. Our history starts 2026-06-19; we hold nothing from before that date. Nothing here is estimated, interpolated or back-filled, and days without a snapshot are simply not plotted.
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