System Design Notes

Catalog:

Cases

• Easy Questions:
  • Design a URL Shortening Service like TinyURL

Basics

• System Design Overview
• HTTP Request Explained
• System Design Interview Guide

Resources:

1. Dynamo - Highly Available Key-value Store
2. Kafka - A Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing
3. Consistent Hashing - Original paper
4. Paxos - Protocol for distributed consensus
5. Concurrency Controls - Optimistic methods for concurrency controls
6. Gossip protocol - For failure detection and more.
7. Chubby - Lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems
8. ZooKeeper - Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems
9. MapReduce - Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
10. Hadoop - A Distributed File System