System Design Ultimatum
A comprehensive collection of system design notes, diagrams, and interview preparation resources.
27
Study Notes
69
Diagrams
12
Categories
Start Here: Study Notes
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-Claude
AWS services
Cassandra
DyanmoDB
ElasticSearch
Flink
Geospatial-Indexing-Methods
Kafka
Postgres
README
Redis
Tradeoffs
Zookeeper
System Design Categories
☁️ 11. Deployment Strategies
Blue-green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies · 6 files
☁️ 5. Storage, Data, and Compute Infrastructure
Distributed storage, key-value stores, file systems · 3 files
🌐 2. Content Delivery & Media Systems
CDN, media streaming, and content distribution systems · 4 files
💬 3. Social & Communication Systems
Chat, feeds, notifications, and social graph systems · 12 files
🔒 8. Security, Identity, and Access Systems
Authentication, authorization, and security patterns · 3 files
🕸️ 4. Search, Discovery & Recommendation
Search engines, recommendations, and discovery systems · 10 files
🧠 7. Analytics, Streaming, and Data Pipelines
Data pipelines, streaming analytics, and real-time processing · 12 files
🧩 1. Foundational(Introductory) Design
Core building blocks: URL shorteners, rate limiters, load balancers · 16 files
🧮 10. Hybrid or AI-Augmented Systems
AI-augmented and hybrid system designs · 2 files
🧰 9. DevOps-Cloud-SaaS Infrastructure
CI/CD, job schedulers, cloud infrastructure · 2 files