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System Design Resources

These are the best resources for System Design on the Internet.

Table of Contents

• Video Processing
• Cluster and Workflow Management
• Intra-Service Messaging
• Message Queue Antipattern
• Service Mesh
• Practical System Design
• Distributed File System
• Time Series Databases
• Rate Limiting
• In Memory Database - Redis
• Network Protocols
• Chess Engine Design
• Subscription Management System
• Google Docs
• API Design
• NoSQL Database Internals
• NoSQL Database Algorithms
• Database Replication
• Containers and Docker
• Capacity Estimation
• Publisher Subscriber
• Event Driven Architectures
• Software Architectures
• Microservices
• Distributed Transactions consistency Patterns
• Load Balancing
• Alerts and Anomaly Detection
• Distributed Logging
• Metrics and Text Search Engine
• Single Point of Failure
• Location Based Services
• Batch Processing
• Real Time Stream Processing
• Caching
• Distributed Consensus
• Authorization
• Content Delivery Network
• Testing Distributed Systems
• System Design Resources

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Video Processing

• Transcoding Videos at Scale
• Facebook Video Broadcasting
• Netflix Video Encoding at Scale
• Netflix Shot based encoding

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Cluster and Workflow Management

• Facebook Cluster Management
• Google Autopilot - Autoscaling
• Netflix Workflow Orchestration
• Opensource Workflow Management
• Meta Hardware Management
• Meta Capacity Assignment
• Amazon EC2

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Intra-Service Messaging

• What is a message queue
• AirBnb Idempotency
• Meta Async Task Computing

Message Queue Antipattern

• DB as queue Antipattern
• Using a database as a message queue
• Anti-pattern of DB as a queue
• Drawbacks of DB as a queue

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Service Mesh

• Kubernetes Service Mesh
• Kubernetes Sidecar
• Service Mesh
• NginX Service Mesh
• Data Plane and Control Plane

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Practical System Design

• Facebook Messenger Optimisations
• YouTube Architecture
• YouTube scalability 2012
• Distributed Design Patterns
• Monolith to Microservice
• Zerodha Tech Stack

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Distributed File System

• Open Source Distributed File System
• Amazon S3 Performance hacks
• Amazon S3 object expiration

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Time Series Databases

• Pinterest Time Series Database
• Uber Time Series DB
• TimeSeries Relational DB
• Facebook Gorilla Time Series DB

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Rate Limiting

• Circuit Breaker Algorithm
• Uber Rate Limiter

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In Memory Database - Redis

• Redis Official Documentation
• Learn Redis through Redis University
• Redis Open Source Repo
• Redis Architecture

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Network Protocols

• What is HTTP
• QUIC Protocol
• TCP Protocol algorithms (First 10 pages are important)
• WebRTC
• WebSockets
• Dynamic Source Routing using QUIC

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Chess Engine Design

• Chess Engine Building

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Subscription Management System

• Subscription Manager

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Google Docs

• Operational Transform
• Google Docs
• Lumiere

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API Design

• API Design at Airbnb
• Swagger APIs

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NoSQL Database Internals

• Cassandra Architecture
• Google BigTable Architecture
• Amazon Dynamo DB Internals
• Design Patterns in Amazon Dynamo DB
• Internals of Amazon Dynamo DB

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NoSQL Database Algorithms

• Hyperloglog Algorithm
• Log Structured Merge Tree
• Sorted String Tables and Compaction Strategies
• Leveled Compaction Cassandra
• Scylla DB Compaction
• Indexing in Cassandra

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Database Replication

• Database replication
• Netflix Data replication - Change Data Capture
• LinkedIn Logging Usecases
• Uber Trillions of indexes in LedgerStore

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Containers and Docker

• Facebook Twine Containerization
• CloudFlare Containerization
• Docker Architecture

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Capacity Estimation

• Google Capacity Estimation
• Scalability at YouTube 2012
• Back of envelope Calculations at AWS
• Capacity Estimation

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Publisher Subscriber

• Oracle Publisher Subscriber
• Amazon Pub Sub Messaging
• Asynchronous processing
• Async Request Response

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Event Driven Architectures

• Martin Fowler- Event Driven Architecture
• Event Driven Architecture

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Software Architectures

• Hexagonal Architecture
• Hexagonal architecture (Alistair Cockburn)
• The Clean Code by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
• CQRS
• DomainDrivenDesign

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Microservices

• Monolith Architecture
• Monoliths vs Microservices
• Microservices
• Uber Nanoservices antipattern
• Uber Domain oriented microservice

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Distributed Transactions consistency Patterns

• Transactional outbox
• SAGAS Long lived transactions (LLTs)

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Load Balancing

• Load Balancer with Sticky Sessions
• NetScaler what is load balancing
• Nginx Load Balancing
• Consistent hashing
• Minimizing connection churn
• Google Subsetting Algorithm

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Alerts and Anomaly Detection

• Outlier Detection
• Anomaly Detection
• Uber Real Time Monitoring and Root Cause Analysis Argos
• Microsoft Anomaly Detection
• Facebook Data Engineering
• LinkedIn Real Time Alerting
• LinkedIn Isolation Forests

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Distributed Logging

• Uber Distributed Request Tracing
• Pintrest Logging
• Google Monitoring Infrastructure

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Metrics and Text Search Engine

• Facebook real-time text search engine
• Elastic Search Time Based Querying
• Elastic Search Aggregation

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Single Point of Failure

• Avoiding Single Points of Failure
• Netflix Multi-Region Availability
• Oracle Single Points of failure
• DNS single point of failure 2004
• DNS traffic management by Shopify
• Sharding

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Location Based Services

• Google S2 library

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Batch Processing

• Map Reduce Architecture

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Real Time Stream Processing

• LinkedIn Brooklin- Real-time data streaming
• Netflix Real Time Stream Processing
• KSQLDB for Kafka
• Netflix Psyberg

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Caching

• Google Guava Cache
• Caching (See the README)
• Caching
• Microsoft Caching Guide
• Caching patterns
• Uber’s Integrated Cache for 40M RPS

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Distributed consensus

• Paxos
• Raft

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Authorization

• Designing an Authorization Model for an Enterprise
• The Architectural Patterns of Cloud-native Authorization Systems

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Content Delivery Network

• AWS CloudFront CDN with S3

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Testing Distributed Systems

• Deterministic Testing
• TLA+ by Leslie Lamport
• Jepsen

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System Design Resources

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications Book
• WhitePapers
• InterviewReady Videos
• System Design Online Judge

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