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System Design Guide for Software Professionals
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System Design Guide for Software Professionals

by Dhirendra Sinha, Tejas Chopra
August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Distributed Systems Building Blocks: DNS, Load Balancers, and Application Gateways

In this chapter, we shift our focus to the essential building blocks that are instrumental in crafting robust, scalable, and efficient systems. Mastering the intricacies of the Domain Name System (DNS), load balancers, and application gateways allows for a granular, bottom-up approach to system design, a complement to the theoretical principles discussed in previous chapters.

The knowledge gained here will not only deepen your understanding of system architecture but will also provide you with practical skills that are useful in real-world applications. From ensuring global connectivity with DNS to optimizing server performance with load balancers, and further ...

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