System design in practice

Learn how to design a system from tech company blogs

Incident Management

• Lessons learned in incident management | Dropbox
• Monitoring server applications with Vortex | Dropbox

Logging

• Building DistributedLog: High-performance replicated log service | Twitter
• Scaling Spark Streaming for Logging Event Ingestion

Migration

• Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 | Github
• Partly Cloudy: Architecture | Twitter
• Partly Cloudy: The start of a journey into the cloud | Twitter

Network improvment

• #ExpandTheEdge: Making Twitter Faster | Twitter
• Rethinking Netflix’s Edge Load Balancing | Netflix

Payment system

• Avoiding Double Payments in a Distributed Payments System | Airbnb
• Scaling Airbnb’s Payment Platform | Airbnb

Realtime search

• Omnisearch Index Formats | Twitter
• Search Relevance Infrastructure at Twitter | Twitter
• Search Relevance Infrastructure at Twitter | Twitter

Scalability

• The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale | Twitter
• New Tweets per second record, and how! | Twitter
• Alki, or how we learned to stop worrying and love cold metadata | Dropbox

Task scheduling

• Dynein: Building an Open-source Distributed Delayed Job Queueing System | Airbnb
• How we designed Dropbox ATF: an async task framework | Dropbox

Testing Pipeline

• Building an Effective Test Pipeline in a Service Oriented World | Airbnb
• Revamping the Android testing pipeline at Dropbox | Dropbox