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vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active April 22, 2025 06:40
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?
@griggheo
griggheo / mail_sendtime.pig
Created February 9, 2012 16:26
Pig script for analyzing mail sending times
REGISTER file:/home/hadoop/lib/pig/piggybank.jar;
DEFINE EXTRACT org.apache.pig.piggybank.evaluation.string.EXTRACT();
DEFINE CustomFormatToISO org.apache.pig.piggybank.evaluation.datetime.convert.CustomFormatToISO();
DEFINE ISOToUnix org.apache.pig.piggybank.evaluation.datetime.convert.ISOToUnix();
DEFINE DATE_TIME org.apache.pig.piggybank.evaluation.datetime.DATE_TIME();
DEFINE FORMAT_DT org.apache.pig.piggybank.evaluation.datetime.FORMAT_DT();