📌 System Design Key Concepts
🛠️ System Design Building Blocks
APIs
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Proxy vs Reverse Proxy
Domain Name System (DNS)
Caching
Caching Strategies
Distributed Caching
API Gateway
Load Balancing
Databases Types
SQL vs NoSQL
Database Indexes
Consistency Patterns
HeartBeats
Circuit Breaker
Idempotency
Database Scaling
Data Replication
Data Redundancy
Database Sharding
Database Architectures
Failover
Bloom Filters
Message Queues
WebSockets
Checksums
Microservices Guidelines
Distributed Locking
⚖️ System Design Tradeoffs
Top 15 Tradeoffs
Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling
Concurrency vs Parallelism
Long Polling vs WebSockets
Batch vs Stream Processing
Stateful vs Stateless Design
Strong vs Eventual Consistency
Read-Through vs Write-Through Cache
Push vs Pull Architecture
REST vs RPC
Synchronous vs. asynchronous communications
Latency vs Throughput
🖇️ System Design Architectural Patterns
Client-Server Architecture
Traditional client-server communication patterns
Microservices Architecture
Distributed system design with microservices
Serverless Architecture
Function-as-a-Service and serverless patterns
Event-Driven Architecture
Event-based communication and processing
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Architecture
Decentralized network architecture
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