🏗️ High-Level System Design - Complete Guide
Comprehensive guide to designing scalable, distributed systems for large-scale applications
📚 Table of Contents
Section titled “📚 Table of Contents”🎯 Core System Design Concepts
Section titled “🎯 Core System Design Concepts”- System Requirements - Gathering and analyzing system requirements
- Network Basics - Network protocols, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS fundamentals
- Web Security - Security principles, authentication, authorization, encryption
- SCALE FROM ZERO TO MILLIONS OF USERS - Scaling strategies from startup to enterprise
🌐 Distributed Systems
Section titled “🌐 Distributed Systems”- Consistent Hashing - Hash ring algorithm for distributed caching and load balancing
- CAP Theorem - Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance trade-offs
- Load Balancer - Load balancing strategies and algorithms
- Leader Election - Leader election algorithms in distributed systems
- Back of the Envelope Calculation - Quick estimation techniques for system design
⚡ Performance Optimization
Section titled “⚡ Performance Optimization”- Caching - Caching fundamentals and strategies
- Caching Strategies - Cache-aside, write-through, write-back patterns
- MapReduce - Distributed data processing framework
- Bloom Filter - Probabilistic data structure for membership testing
🗄️ Database Concepts for System Design
Section titled “🗄️ Database Concepts for System Design”- SQL vs NoSQL - Choosing between SQL and NoSQL databases
- ACID - Transaction properties and isolation levels
- DataBase Partitioning - Horizontal and vertical partitioning strategies
- DataBase Replication - Single-leader, multi-leader, leaderless replication
- Distributed Transaction Handling (Database) - 2PC, SAGA, and distributed transaction patterns
- Master Slave Replication - Master-slave replication architecture
🎓 System Design Interview Questions
Section titled “🎓 System Design Interview Questions”Common system design problems and solutions:
- URL Shortener (TinyURL) - TinyURL Design
- Social Media App (Twitter) - Twitter-like System
- File Sharing Service (Dropbox) - Dropbox Design
- Video Streaming (Netflix) - Netflix Design
- Autocomplete (Google) - Google Autocomplete
- Messaging App (WhatsApp) - WhatsApp Design
- Document Editor (Google Docs) - Google Docs Design
- Proximity Service (Uber) - Uber Design
- Hotel Booking (Airbnb) - Airbnb Design
- Web Crawler - Web Crawler Design