System-Design.md

Template

• System Design Inteview Template

Resources

• Coding Interview University
• The System Design Primer
• System Design Cheatsheet
• System Design (hiredintech)
• Grokking the System Design Interview

Concepts

• Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
• CAP Theorem, PACELC
• Event Sourcing
• Two-phase locking, Serializability, Optimistic Locking vs Pesimistic Locking
• Timer Queues
• Long-Polling vs WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events
• Consistent Hashing
  • The Simple Magic of Consistent Hashing
• NoSQL Databases
  • Apache Cassandra: The Truth Behind Tunable Consistency, Lightweight Transactions & Secondary Indexes
  • DynamoDB
  • Elastic Search
• Compression Algorithms
  • http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/
  • https://github.com/lz4/lz4
• RPC frameworks: gRPC (Protocol Buffers), Thrift
• Microservices Architecture
  • Saga Pattern
• Cache consistency with database

Papers

• Shared-Nothing Architecture
• Map-Reduce
• Dynamo DB
• Google Spanner
  • Spanner, TrueTime & The CAP Theorem

Watch

• Distributed Systems in One Lesson by Tim Berglund 48 mins
• What is API gateway? 10 mins
• Serverless + Containers = Modern Cloud Applications 42 mins
• Designing Events-First Microservices 51 mins
• Apache Kafka
  • Apache Kafka Explained (Comprehensive Overview) 19 mins
  • Kafka: A Modern Distributed System 52 mins
• Microservice Architecture
  • Saga Pattern 49 min
• Google Production Environment 15 mins

Read

• Patterns for distributed transactions within a microservices architecture
• Microservices Design Patterns

Books

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems