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The document outlines essential principles for understanding system design, emphasizing the importance of foundational concepts such as load balancing, CAP theorem, and database choices. It highlights the significance of trade-offs in system architecture and the role of queues in managing request frequency. Additionally, it suggests resources like Harvard lectures and Gaurav Sen’s playlist for further learning and preparation for system design interviews.

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golang_queue_operations

The document outlines essential principles for understanding system design, emphasizing the importance of foundational concepts such as load balancing, CAP theorem, and database choices. It highlights the significance of trade-offs in system architecture and the role of queues in managing request frequency. Additionally, it suggests resources like Harvard lectures and Gaurav Sen’s playlist for further learning and preparation for system design interviews.

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Understand common principles.

My absolute favorite starting point would be this


Harvard lecture. It gives a good layman's explanation of many scaling concepts you
would eventually deep-dive into later. Following it up with this series of blog
posts should give you a clear picture of what scaling and building distributed
systems involve. Gaurav Sen’s system design playlist is another great place to
understand fundamental concepts. A non-exhaustive list of topics to cover would
include —
* Load Balancing
* Consistent hashing
* Scaling
* CAP theorem
* CDN’s
* Caching
* Failovers
* Replication
* APIs (REST/ gRPC )
* Polling, Long Polling, and Websockets
Understand your trade-offs. Reading through the system design primer would cover a
lot of trade-off choices you would be looking into during your system design
interviews, esp. the CAP theorem. The reading material is fairly comprehensive,
with linked sources to dive further into the topic. Designing a system architecture
is a balancing act of sorts, and having a clear understanding of your trade-offs
upfront would help you make the right design choices for your requirements during
your interview.
Understand databases. Most of the choices you make during your interview would
revolve around data. The 3 big questions are — how do you represent, transport, and
store your data? Understanding databases helps you answer at least 2 of these
questions. Different databases have different perks and compromises that are
important for you to realize. Also understanding your data replication/backup
strategy, read v/s write performances (if your system is read-heavy or write-
heavy), do you need to shard your data, indexing, etc would be necessary parameters
you would need to consider and know to make reasonable database design choices.
📝 Note: The expectation isn’t to pick a database offering (e.g. you don’t need to
choose between MySQL or PostgreSQL). Rather, you must have a clear idea and make
choices that consider the gains you would appreciate from your DB and compromises
with it the design architecture is okay with.

Queues are OP. Scaling your architecture is hard. One of the bigger challenges you
face is handling the frequency of requests at a time. Integrating queues allows you
to handle requests asynchronously. They have many other uses as well. Understanding
the WHY and HOW you should use a queue is equally important. Queues come in various
forms as well — Message Queue and Publish-Subscribe Models being the more common
ones. Using the right queue in your design (with the right justifications) can be a
big strength in your interviews.
The above list is not exhaustive by any means but should be a good enough starting
point. The next steps would cover how to approach your interviews, but without
having sound fundamental knowledge it would be very difficult to make the most of
the next steps.

✍ Follow-up: Interviewing.io also wrote a very well-consolidated article on the 12


fundamental system design concepts that might also prove to be useful.

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