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SDSystem Design Ultimatum

Study Notes

Overview and Reference4

README Technology Overview Tradeoffs Unique Topics

Core Concepts12

01-Database-Tradeoffs 02-Caching-Strategies 03-API-Design 04-Storage-Tradeoffs 05-Communication-Patterns 06-Scalability-Reliability 07-Data-Processing 08-Architecture-Patterns 09-REST-gRPC-Best-Practices 11-Design-Patterns 12-Security-Best-Practices 13-Distributed Systems for Practitioners

Databases and Storage Engines6

Cassandra DyanmoDB ElasticSearch Postgres Redis SQL-Interview-Questions-and-Answers

Streaming and Coordination3

Flink Kafka Zookeeper

Cloud and Infrastructure1

Geospatial Systems1

Geospatial-Indexing-Methods

High Performance Computing23

HPC HPC-00-Learning-Roadmap HPC-01-Fundamentals HPC-02-Slurm-MPI HPC-03-Storage-Networking-Operations HPC-04-Cloud-ParallelCluster HPC-05-Interviews HPC-06-Computer-Architecture HPC-07-Parallel-Programming HPC-08-Parallel-Algorithms-Performance HPC-09-Compilers-Profiling-Tuning HPC-10-Numerical-Methods-Scientific-Simulations HPC-11-Data-I-O-Distributed-Resilience HPC-12-Emerging-Architectures-Green-Computing

GPU MODE Lectures9

GPU-00-Study-Plan GPU-01-CUDA-Foundations GPU-02-Parallel-Algorithms GPU-03-Triton-Compilers-DSLs GPU-04-CUTLASS-CuTe-Tensor-Cores GPU-05-Quantization-Sparsity-Numerics GPU-06-Multi-GPU-Distributed GPU-07-LLM-Systems-Inference GPU-08-Beyond-NVIDIA

AI and LLM Systems6

13-Claude 14-AI-ML-Fundamentals-Interview-Guide 15-Generative-AI-Interview-Guide 16-Agentic-AI-Interview-Guide 17-Prompt-Engineering-Interview-Guide 18-Claude-Code-Interview-Guide

System Designs

🧩Foundational(Introductory) Design16

Communication Patterns Data Structure Database Strategies Distributed Transactions DNS Kafka Load Balancer Price Checking System Price Tracker Proximity Search Rate Limiter Redis SSO Tiny URL URL Shortener Web Crawler

🌐Content Delivery & Media Systems4

Facebook Live Comments Google Photos Netflix YouTube (Video Hosting & Streaming)

💬Social & Communication Systems12

Chat System(Messaging)Donation Drive Facebook NewsFeed Global Notification Service Instagram (Image Sharing, Feed, Stories)NewsFeed NewsFeedV1 Ticket Booking System Ticketmaster Tinder Twitter (Tweets, Timelines)WhatsApp

🕸️Search, Discovery & Recommendation10

Facebook Post Search Google Maps Hotel Booking (Airbnb)Local Delivery Service Nearby Friends Proximity Service Search Auto-Complete Tweet Search (Real Time Indexing)Uber Yelp (Review + Search)

☁️Storage, Data, and Compute Infrastructure3

Amazon Distributed Key-Value Store File Storage (Dropbox, Google Drive)

🧠Analytics, Streaming, and Data Pipelines12

Ad Click Aggregator Analytics Dashboard (Clickstream)Batch Inference System Distributed Logging & Monitoring Distributed Queue (Kafka RabbitMQ)Leetcode (Online Coding Competition)Log Aggregation Log Ingestion Service Top K Leaderboard Top K Youtube Videos Trending Hashtags (Top-K)Zoom

🔒Security, Identity, and Access Systems3

Auth System Payment Gateway Stock Broker Trading (Upstox)

🧰DevOps-Cloud-SaaS Infrastructure2

Distributed Job Scheduler (Airflow, Temporal, Celery)Facebook Likes (Distributed Counter)

🧮Hybrid or AI-Augmented Systems2

ChatGPT RAG Chatbot

☁️Deployment Strategies6

README ab_testing_deployment blue_green_deployment canary_deployment feature_flag_deployment rolling_deployment

🤖AI Design Patterns6

Introduction Multi Agent Conversational Recommender System (MACRS)Multimodal LLM Agent for Multi Object Diffusion Personal AI Assistant like Openclaw Reward Design with Coding LLMs Web Agent

🖥️High Performance Computing2

Resources

Books2

ACID Third Party Links

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Deployment Strategies

Overview notes for deployment strategy patterns and tradeoffs.

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System Design Ultimatum · Last updated 10/17/2026