Scaling Infrastructure: The Edge, Horizontal Scale, and the Math Behind Them
Application-level fixes (kill the N+1, add the index) get you a long way, but…
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Pattern: Handling Large Blobs
Sooner or later a design involves something big and binary: profile photos…
Scaling Reads
Almost every system you will be asked to design is read-heavy. A social network…
Design a Video Streaming Platform (YouTube)
“Design YouTube” is the quintessential system design interview question. It…
Common Components and When to Use Them
Every system you design in an interview is assembled from a small set of well…
Scaling Reads — Caching, Replicas & CDN
Most real-world systems are read-heavy. Twitter serves 600K reads per second but…