System Design

Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance software architectures.

topics
topic Horizontal Scaling Adding more nodes, stateless design, load distribution, and data partitioning strategies. read topic Microservices Service decomposition, bounded contexts, inter-service communication, and orchestration. read topic Load Balancing Layer 4/7, algorithms, sticky sessions, health probes, and global server load balancing. read topic Caching Strategies Cache-aside, read-through, write-through, write-behind, CDN caching, and cache invalidation. read topic Database Design Normalization, denormalization, index strategies, connection pooling, and read replicas. read topic Message Queues RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, pub/sub, at-least-once delivery, and backpressure handling. read topic API Design REST, GraphQL, gRPC, versioning, rate limiting, idempotency, and API gateways. read