System Design

Name	URL	Description
System Design Primer	https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer	A 200k Stars repo with System Design Notes, not too detailed, but covers a lot of stuff
Cloudflare Learning Center	https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/learning/	Cloudflare is a perfect source to learn system design, they have so many free info in their docs

Topics

• Cache
  • Cloudflare
• CDN
• DNS
• Load Balancer
• Reverse Proxy
• Database
• Asynchronism
  • Message Queues
  • Task Queues
  • Back Pressure
• Security
• Protocols
• Deployment
  • Read Web App Deployment for web app deployment methods

How to Approach a System Design Interview Question

1. Outline use cases, constraints, assumptions
   • Who is client?
   • How many client?
   • How are clients using it?
   • How much data?
   • How many requests per second?
   • Read/Write Ratio
2. Create the high-level design
   • Sketch the main components and connections
3. Design core components
4. Scale the design
   • Load Balancer
   • Horizontal Scaling
   • Caching
   • Database Sharding