System Design

Posted on 0001-01-01. Last updated on 2025-07-08 (history). Approx 100 words. Approx 1 minutes read.

Things to study practically:

Database concepts - indexing, sharding, partitioning, replication, CDC.
Redis concepts - available commands.
Queuing system concepts.
Load balancers / auto scaling.
Batch processing - spark.
Stream processing - flink.

Things to do in system design interview:

Coming up with a system design diagram.
Thinking about API contracts.
Thinking about database design.
Thinking about failure cases / retry cases / bottlenecks.
Thinking about observability and alerting.
Protecting service - rate-limiting / throttling.