uzumaki-narut0/system-design-primer

A collection of topics and resources to polish your System Design lenses :mag:

System Design Primer

A collection of topics and resources to polish your System Design lenses 🔍

Load Balancers

• Advantages and Disadvantages
• L4 vs L7 load balancers
• Active-Passive vs Active-Active failover mechanism

Client Server connections

• HTTP/2 vs HTTP/1.1
• WebSockets
• Server Sent Events

Caching

• Memcached : How Memory Gets Allocated For Items
• Consistent Hashing - Auto Scaling

Message Brokers and Event Streaming

• Idempotency and Retrial
• Classic mirrored vs Quorom queues (RabbitMQ)
• Raft consensus protocol

Databases

• SQL vs NoSQL
• ACID
• Sharding
• Replication : Master/Slave vs Master/Master

Consensus and Consistency

• Eventual consistency vs Immediate consistency
• Byzantine Generals Problem
• Byzantine Fault Tolerance

GeoSpatial Data

• Quad trees
• R trees
• Google S2

Low level Storage Fundamentals

• Network Attached Storage (File Storage)
• Storage Area Network (Block Storage)
• Object Storage (Blobs + Id + Metadata)

API Gateways

• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Service Discovery
• Authentication and Authorisation
• Similarities and DisSimilarities with Service Mesh