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Acing the System Design Interview
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Acing the System Design Interview

by zhiyong tan
January 2024
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
15h 11m
English
Manning Publications
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9 Design a notification/alerting service

This chapter covers

  • Limiting the feature scope and discussion of a service
  • Designing a service that delegates to platform-specific channels
  • Designing a system for flexible configurations and templates
  • Handling other typical concerns of a service

We create functions and classes in our source code to avoid duplication of coding, debugging, and testing, to improve maintainability, and to allow reuse. Likewise, we generalize common functionalities used by multiple services (i.e. centralization of cross-cutting concerns).

Sending user notifications is a common system requirement. In any system design discussion, whenever we discuss sending notifications, we should suggest a common notification service for ...

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