System Design for Interviews and Beyond – Mikhail Smarshchok

High availability (time-based and count-based availability, design principles behind high availability, processes behind high availability, SLO, SLA)

System Design for Interviews and Beyond by Mikhail Smarshchok,
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System Design for Interviews and Beyond – Mikhail Smarshchok

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Course curriculum

  1. Introduction

    1. Course introduction

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    2. Who will benefit from the course and how

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    3. Course overview

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  2. How to define system requirements

    1. System requirements

    2. Functional requirements

    3. High availability

    4. Fault tolerance, resilience, reliability

    5. Scalability

    6. Performance

    7. Durability

    8. Consistency

    9. Maintainability, security, cost

    10. Summary of system requirements

  3. How to achieve certain system qualities with the help of hardware

    1. Regions, availability zones, data centers, racks, servers

    2. Physical servers, virtual machines, containers, serverless

  4. Fundamentals of reliable, scalable, and fast communication

    1. Synchronous vs asynchronous communication

    2. Asynchronous messaging patterns

    3. Network protocols

    4. Blocking vs non-blocking I/O

    5. Data encoding formats

    6. Message acknowledgment

  5. How to improve system performance with caching

    1. Deduplication cache

    2. Metadata cache

  6. The importance of queues in distributed systems

    1. Queue

    2. Full and empty queue problems

    3. Start with something simple

    4. Blocking queue and producer-consumer pattern

    5. Thread pool

    6. Big compute architecture

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