Design Patterns System Design

System Design

Setting the Stage

Overview of system design and its importance Basic concepts and terminology

Basic Design Principles

Scalability Availability Performance Security

Designing for Scalability

Understanding Bottlenecks Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling Monoliths vs Microservices Load Balancing Data Partition and Sharding Single Point of Failure Caching Stateless vs. stateful systems

Designing for Availability

Fault Tolerance Redundancy Disaster Recovery Service Discovery and Heartbeats Content Delivery Networks

Designing for Performance

Optimizing for Read vs. Write Indexing and Query Optimization Database Design Load Testing and Benchmarking

Designing for Security

Authentication and Authorization Encryption Network Security

Distributed Systems

An Introduction to Distributed Systems CAP Theorem Network Consistency in Distributed Systems Location-Based Databases Data Replication

Microservices Architecture

API Design Goals Service Discovery

Event-Driven Architecture

Event Driven Architectures Messaging and Event Handling The Message Queue Asynchronous Processing Publisher Subscriber Models

Cloud-Native Design

Serverless Architecture Containerization

Conclusion

Recap of key takeaways Resources for further learning

System Design

High Availability

High Availability

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