System Design (System Design)
System Design
Learn how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews
About the Book
System design interviews can be quite open-ended and intimidating as it is a very extensive topic. There can be multiple solutions to even the most basic system design problems. The objective of this book is to help you learn the fundamentals and explore the advanced topics of system design. This will also provide you with a reliable strategy to prepare for system design interviews.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
- License
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Getting Started
- What is system design?
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Chapter I
- IP
- OSI Model
- TCP and UDP
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Load Balancing
- Clustering
- Caching
- Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Proxy
- Availability
- Scalability
- Storage
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Chapter II
- Databases and DBMS
- SQL databases
- NoSQL databases
- SQL vs NoSQL databases
- Database Replication
- Indexes
- Normalization and Denormalization
- ACID and BASE consistency models
- CAP theorem
- PACELC Theorem
- Transactions
- Distributed Transactions
- Sharding
- Consistent Hashing
- Database Federation
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Chapter III
- N-tier architecture
- Message Brokers
- Message Queues
- Publish-Subscribe
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
- Monoliths and Microservices
- Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
- Event Sourcing
- Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
- API Gateway
- REST, GraphQL, gRPC
- Long polling, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE)
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Chapter IV
- Geohashing and Quadtrees
- Circuit breaker
- Rate Limiting
- Service Discovery
- SLA, SLO, SLI
- Disaster recovery
- Virtual Machines (VMs) and Containers
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- SSL, TLS, mTLS
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Chapter V
- System Design Interviews
- URL Shortener
- Netflix
- Uber
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Appendix
- Next Steps
- References
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