August 9, 2022
System Design Interview
- Rate Limiting
- Distributed Cache
- Distributed Message Queue
- Notification Service
- Top K Problem – Heavy Hitters
- Key Characteristics of Distributed Systems
- Load Balancing
- Caching
- Data Partitioning
- Indexes
- Proxies
- Redundancy and Replication
- SQL vs. NoSQL
- CAP Theorem
- Consistent Hashing
- Long-Polling vs WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events
- Performance vs scalability
- Latency vs throughput
- Availability vs consistency
- Consistency Patterns
- Availability Patterns
- Domain Name System
- Content Delivery Network
- Application Layer
- Database
- Vertical scaling vs horizontal scaling
- Stateless web tier & Stateful architecture & Stateless architecture
- Data centers
- Logging, metrics, automation
- Asynchronism
- Communication
- Security
- System Design Interviews: A step by step guide
- A URL Shortening service like TinyURL
- A Unique ID Generator
- Pastebin
- Dropbox
- Facebook Messenger
- Youtube or Netflix
- Typeahead Suggestion
- Twitter Search
- Web Crawler
- Facebook’s Newsfeed
- Yelp or Nearby Friends
- Uber backend
- Tinder
- Ticketmaster
- Mint
- Design the data structures for a social network
- Design Amazon’s sales ranking by category feature
- Design a system that scales to millions of users on AWS
