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Things You Must Know in System Design

• System design basics
• Horizontal and vertical scaling
• Load balancing and message queues
• High-level design and low-level design, consistent hashing, monolith and microservices architecture
• Caching, indexing, proxies
• Networking, how browsers work, content delivery networks (CDN)
• Database sharding, CAP theorem, database schema design
• Concurrency, APIs, components, OOP, abstraction
• Estimation and planning, performance
• MapReduce, patterns, and microservices
• SQL vs NoSQL and cloud
• Most popular system design questions

System Design Case Studies

• Design Netflix
• Design Reddit
• Design Messenger app
• Design Instagram
• Design Dropbox
• Design YouTube
• Design Tinder
• Design Yelp
• Design WhatsApp
• Design URL shortener
• Design Amazon Prime Video
• Design Twitter
• Design Uber
• Design TikTok
• Design Facebook News Feed
• Design web crawler
• Design API rate limiter
• All solved case studies

Additional Resources

• System design important terms
• Most popular system design questions
• Complete system design basics series