While I agree that a precursor to these concepts would be a great initiator, however I also believe that a good appreciation for scaling technologies can only be developed by getting hands on and working with a high traffic website. Just reading the theory might not help that well.

site down? Accessing from India.

How do you guys match an interviewer with an interviewee? Its a fairly interesting problem to find best possible match for a interview setting. Might extend to figuring out who is a best suited interviewer for a candidate out of whole pool of interviewers at a company.

We look at various parameters : Current company ( We match people from similar companies and never from the same company ) / university / coding performances across websites, including InterviewBit / interaction with design content on InterviewBit. Based on that, we match people with almost similar backgrounds and enable them to interview each other. If you are already interviewing through InterviewBit, we give higher preference to finding a peer who is currently working at one of the companies you might interview at. A similar matching happens to figure out the problem to be asked from you.