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System Design

Design services that scale horizontally, tolerate failures, and meet latency and throughput requirements.

Topic 14 of 24

Prerequisites

Databases
API Development
Caching

Key Concepts & Skills

Scalability
Load Balancing
Horizontal Scaling
Vertical Scaling
Distributed Systems
Estimate capacity
Design load-balanced systems
Identify bottlenecks
Choose scaling strategies

Learning Outcomes

Understand the core principles of Scalability
Configure and deploy Load Balancing successfully
Troubleshoot common issues with Horizontal Scaling
Understand the core principles of Vertical Scaling
Configure and deploy Distributed Systems successfully
Troubleshoot common issues with Estimate capacity
Understand the core principles of Design load-balanced systems
Configure and deploy Identify bottlenecks successfully
Troubleshoot common issues with Choose scaling strategies

Resources

Community

System Design Primer

Official Docs

AWS Well-Architected Google SRE books

Practice Exercises

Design a URL shortener.Estimate traffic and storage.Identify single points of failure.

Project Task

Build a scalable URL shortener with analytics.

Quiz

When would horizontal scaling be better than vertical scaling?Explain the answer with one real-world example.List one mistake a beginner might make here.

Notes