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System Design

It Depends. On What? Tradeoffs

Question

Clarify Problem, Scope, Requirements use cases, who & how? in what sequence of events will users act Traffic, transactions per second at each bottleneck. request types, read v writes Application profiles, cpu, memory intensive, idempotency stateless, stick sessions

High Level Design

Load Balancing & CDNs APIs Business Services required Data Persistence Reporting & Observability Caching Resiliency Self Healing

Detailed Design

SCALE SMART Scaling, Consistency, Availability, Latency, Error Resiliency State, Monitoring, Asynchronous, Resources, Trust & Security Communicate with your Interviewer ask for opinions. Suggest alternatives, and trade-offs

Wrap Up

Discuss TradeOff preferences and what drives them

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