Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Foundations of System Design
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Basics of System Design
What is system design?
Software system
Distributed software system
Understanding system design
What are the types of system design?
High-level system design
System architecture
Data flow
Scalability
Fault tolerance
Low-level system design
Algorithms
Data structures
APIs
Code optimization
Importance of system design in the industry
Practical examples of the importance of system design
Summary
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Distributed System Attributes
A hotel room booking example
Consistency
Strong consistency
Eventual consistency
Availability
Understanding partition tolerance
Network partition
Partition tolerance
Latency
Durability
Reliability
Fault tolerance
Scalability
Vertical scaling ...
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