Related: Design Patterns

System Design

11 topics, ordered from the decisions every system makes to the ones only large ones do. Nothing is locked — the order is a suggestion, so start anywhere.

  1. System Design
  2. 1. Scaling Basics
  3. 2. Load Balancing
  4. 3. Caching
  5. 4. SQL and NoSQL
  6. 5. Replication and Sharding
  7. 6. Consistency and CAP
  8. 7. Message Queues
  9. 8. Rate Limiting
  10. 9. CDNs and Edge Delivery
  11. 10. Consistent Hashing
  12. 11. Idempotency and Retries

Labs

Concept reference

52 terms across 12 areas, laid out the same way as the path above. Named design patterns have their own catalogue — they answer a different question.

52 concepts

  1. Fundamentals
  2. Consistency & Availability
  3. Networking & Traffic
  4. Application Layer
  5. Databases
  6. Caching
  7. Asynchronism & Communication
  8. Performance Antipatterns
  9. Monitoring & Observability
  10. Security Patterns
  11. Storage Engines & Indexing
  12. Streaming & Delivery Semantics