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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

Patterns & components

Production concerns

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Building Blocks

Building Blocks

Core infrastructure components used to build scalable distributed systems.

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Building Blocks of System Design

These are the fundamental infrastructure components that power distributed systems. Understanding each component is essential for designing scalable and reliable architectures.

DNS

CDN

Load Balancer

Reverse Proxy

Sharding

Indexing

Caching Strategies

Message Queues

Pub/Sub

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Monorepo vs Multi-repo

A comprehensive guide to repository strategies - choosing between monorepo and multi-repo architectures for your projects

DNS

Understanding the Domain Name System and its role in distributed systems.

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