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Free System Design Tool & Interview Simulator
paperdraw.dev is a free browser-based system design tool for practicing system design interviews and designing distributed systems architectures. Draw components, connect flows, run real traffic and latency simulations, and inject chaos events — all in your browser.
Features
Interactive architecture diagram editor with 40+ components: load balancers, databases, caches, queues, CDN, microservices, and more
Real-time traffic and latency simulation — watch RPS flow through your system live
Chaos engineering — inject failures, network partitions, and overload events
AI-assisted component inference and system specialization