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The System Design Primer

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ep1: design the shape before the machinery
The System Design Primer: design the shape before the machinery
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EN
ep2: napkin math that catches bad designs
The System Design Primer: napkin math that catches bad designs
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ep3: performance, scalability, latency, throughput
The System Design Primer: speed vs size
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EC
ep4: CAP is a failure-mode choice
The System Design Primer: CAP as a failure-mode choice
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EW
ep5: weak, eventual, and strong consistency
The System Design Primer: consistency models
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EF
ep6: failover, replication, and uptime math
The System Design Primer: staying up
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ep7: DNS is the internet phonebook with cache drama
The System Design Primer: DNS
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ep8: CDNs move boring bytes close to people
The System Design Primer: CDN edge caching
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EL
ep9: load balancers are traffic cops with opinions
The System Design Primer: load balancers
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ER
ep10: reverse proxies, app layer, and service discovery
The System Design Primer: the app layer
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ER
ep11: relational databases scale by splitting pain
The System Design Primer: relational scaling
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ep12: denormalization and SQL tuning
The System Design Primer: SQL tuning
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EC
ep13: choosing key-value, document, wide-column, graph, or SQL
The System Design Primer: choosing a database shape
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EC
ep14: caches are speed with memory problems
The System Design Primer: cache traps
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EQ
ep15: queues turn spikes into lines
The System Design Primer: queues and async work
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EC
ep16: choosing how services talk
The System Design Primer: service communication
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ES
ep17: security is part of the architecture
The System Design Primer: security basics
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ep18: designing Pastebin or Bitly
The System Design Primer: Pastebin and short links
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ET
ep19: timelines are precompute vs fetch-time fights
The System Design Primer: timeline and search
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EW
ep20: web crawlers are polite distributed chaos
The System Design Primer: web crawler
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EM
ep21: Mint-style systems are sync, trust, and categorization
The System Design Primer: Mint-style finance systems
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ES
ep22: social graphs are relationship databases with sharp edges
The System Design Primer: social graph data structures
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EK
ep23: key-value stores hide hard distributed-systems choices
The System Design Primer: key-value store for search
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ep24: scaling to millions is composition
The System Design Primer: scaling to millions
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