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Created November 21, 2018 22:50 — forked from vasanthk/System Design.md
System Design Cheatsheet

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

  1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system
  • User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
    • Who is going to use it?
    • How are they going to use it?

Questions about Distributed systems by @tsantero.

  1. explain the life of an http request.
  2. what does the FLP result teach us?
  3. what is a byzantine failure?
  4. explain CRDTs
  5. explain linearizability.
  6. how does DNS work?
  7. crash-stop vs crash-recovery?
  8. difference between soft and hard real time
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