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System Design Guide

Foundations

Fundamentals What is System Design?How to solve?How to estimate?Capacity Planning

Scaling & Reliability

Scalability Availability Fail-Over Latency vs Throughput Replication

Theorems

CAP Theorem PACELC Theorem

Consistency

Consistency Strong Consistency Eventual Consistency Weak Consistency

Distributed Systems

Distributed Consensus Gossip Protocol Vector Clocks

Architecture Styles

Microservices Architecture Micro-frontends Architecture Monorepo vs Multi-repo

Building Blocks

Networking

DNS CDN Load Balancer Reverse Proxy

Caching

Cache-Aside Cache Strategies Write-Through Write-Behind

Data

Sharding Consistent Hashing Indexing Bloom Filters

Messaging

Message Queues Task Queues Pub/Sub

Coordination

Rate Limiting Distributed Locking Leader Election Heartbeat

Architecture & communication

Architecture API Gateway Backend for Frontend (BFF)Service Discovery Service Mesh

Patterns & components

Production concerns

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Architecture

Architectural patterns and concepts for distributed systems.

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System Architecture

Understanding architectural patterns helps you design scalable, maintainable, and resilient distributed systems.

Microservices

Service Discovery

API Gateway

Micro Frontends

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Mark it done to track your progress in Concepts.

Heartbeat

Understanding heartbeat mechanisms for failure detection in distributed systems.

API Gateway

Understanding API gateways in microservices architecture.

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