System Design Building Blocks

System Design Building Blocks
Published 3/2023
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Get ready for System Design Interviews by mastering the fundamental concepts for building scalable web systems

What you’ll learn

Understand the fundamental principles of system design and their role in building scalable web applications.

Develop expertise in key system components, including databases, load balancers, and caching.

Learn how to apply scaling techniques, such as sharding, replication, and load balancing, to improve web application performance.

Master techniques for designing rate limiters, unique ID generators, and other key system components.

Prepare for system design interviews and other technical assessments by mastering foundational system design concepts and techniques.

Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in web system design.

Requirements

Basic understanding of system architecture: You should have a basic understanding of system architecture and how components interact with each other in a web application.

computer networks and protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and DNS. Familiarity with databases: Students should be familiar with databases and have a basic understanding of relational database concepts such as tables, rows, and columns.

amiliarity with cloud technologies: Students should have a basic understanding of cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.

Willingness to learn: The course covers a lot of material, and students should be willing to put in the time and effort to learn and practice the concepts covered in the course.

Description

Overview

Section 1: Building Blocks

Lecture 1 How basic web app works ?

Lecture 2 Database

Lecture 3 Load Balancer

Lecture 4 DB Replication

Lecture 5 Cache

Lecture 6 CDN

Lecture 7 Stateless Web Tier

Lecture 8 Message Queue

Lecture 9 Logging & Metrics

Lecture 10 Sharding

Lecture 11 Back of Envelop Estimation

Lecture 12 CAP Theorem

Lecture 13 Summary

Section 2: Consistent Hashing

Lecture 14 Introduction to Consistent Hashing

Lecture 15 Rehashing Problem

Lecture 16 How consistent hashing works ?

Lecture 17 Two Problems

Lecture 18 Virtual Nodes

Lecture 19 Finding affected keys

Lecture 20 Summary

Section 3: Key Value Store

Lecture 21 Introduction

Lecture 23 Consistency

Lecture 24 Inconsistency Resoultion

Lecture 25 Handling Failures

Lecture 26 System Architecture

Lecture 27 Write Path

Lecture 28 Read Path

Lecture 29 Wrap Up

Section 4: Template to Approach System Design Problems

Lecture 30 Introduction

Lecture 31 Step 1 : Understand Problem

Lecture 32 Step 2: Propose HLD & get nod on it

Lecture 33 Step 3 : Deep Dive in Design

Lecture 34 Step 4 : Wrap Up

Lecture 35 Do’s & Don’t

Section 5: Design Rate Limiter

Lecture 36 Introduction

Lecture 37 Understanding Requirements

Lecture 38 Propose HLD & get nod on it

Lecture 39 Token Bucket Algo

Lecture 40 Leaky Bucket Algo

Lecture 41 Fixed Window Counter Algo

Lecture 42 Sliding Window Log Algo

Lecture 43 Sliding Window Counter Algo

Lecture 44 High Level Design

Lecture 45 Deep Dive – Detail Design

Lecture 46 Distributive Rate Limiter

Lecture 47 Wrapping Up

Section 6: Design Unique ID Generator

Lecture 48 Introduction

Lecture 49 Understanding the requirements

Lecture 50 Propose HLD & suggest Multi Master Replication approach

Lecture 51 UUID approach

Lecture 52 Ticket Server approach

Lecture 53 Twitter Snowflake approach

Lecture 54 Deep Dive

Lecture 55 Wrapping Up

Software developers: This course is ideal for software developers who want to learn how to design scalable and robust web applications.,System architects: This course is also suitable for system architects who want to improve their system design skills and learn best practices for designing high-performance and fault-tolerant systems.,Technical managers: This course can be useful for technical managers who want to understand the fundamentals of system design and be able to communicate effectively with their development teams.,Computer science students: This course can be a valuable resource for computer science students who want to learn about system design and prepare for system design interview questions.,Anyone interested in system design: This course is also suitable for anyone who is interested in learning about system design and wants to improve their technical skills in this area.