vasanthk

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?

gsathya

Hackfest

Introduction -

A two/three night hackathon on free and open source software[Ex. Gnome, KDE, Wikimedia].
Mentors who have been contributing to said foss projects help new hackers get
started by giving them a primer on -

• Intro to FOSS – the philosophy of that project
• Download the source – using version control