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System Design Guide for Software Professionals

You're reading from   System Design Guide for Software Professionals Build scalable solutions – from fundamental concepts to cracking top tech company interviews

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Published in Aug 2024
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ISBN-13 9781805124993
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhirendra Sinha is a Software Engineering Manager at Google. He is an angel investor and has served as a Strategic and Technology advisor at a few startups. Dhirendra has around two decades of experience in the Software Engineering field building highly scalable complex distributed systems and managing multiple Engineering teams. While he has experience in working at large companies such as Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo, and Google, he has also been involved with early and late-stage startups in leadership positions. In addition to his strong Software Engineering experience, he has been teaching the Distributed System Design course for the last seven years. He has also been coaching and mentoring Software Engineers and Software Engineering Managers for over a decade. He completed his Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Guwahati and Master of Science from Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas.nn
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Tejas Chopra is a Senior Engineer at Netflix working on building the Machine Learning Platform powering Netflix recommendations and personalization. He is also a Co-founder at GoEB1, which is the world’s first thought leadership platform for immigrants. Tejas is a recipient of the prestigious EB1A (Einstein) visa in the US. He is a Tech 40 under 40 Award winner, a 2xTEDx speaker, a British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow, and has spoken at conferences and panels on Cloud Computing, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Software Development, and Engineering Leadership. Tejas has been awarded the “International Achievers Award, 2023” by the Indian Achievers’ Forum. He is an Adjunct Professor of Software Development at the University of Advancing Technology, Arizona, an Angel Investor, and has previously been an Advisor to startups such as Nillion, Inc. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for Future of Memory and Storage Summit. Tejas’ experience has been in companies such as Box, Apple, Samsung, Cadence, and Datrium. Tejas holds a Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
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Preface 1. Part 1: Foundations of System Design FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Basics of System Design 3. Chapter 2: Distributed System Attributes 4. Chapter 3: Distributed Systems Theorems and Data Structures 5. Part 2: Core Components of Distributed Systems
6. Chapter 4: Distributed Systems Building Blocks: DNS, Load Balancers, and Application Gateways 7. Chapter 5: Design and Implementation of System Components –Databases and Storage 8. Chapter 6: Distributed Cache 9. Chapter 7: Pub/Sub and Distributed Queues 10. Part 3: System Design in Practice
11. Chapter 8: Design and Implementation of System Components: API, Security, and Metrics 12. Chapter 9: System Design – URL Shortener 13. Chapter 10: System Design – Proximity Service 14. Chapter 11: Designing a Service Like Twitter 15. Chapter 12: Designing a Service Like Instagram 16. Chapter 13: Designing a Service Like Google Docs 17. Chapter 14: Designing a Service Like Netflix 18. Chapter 15: Tips for Interviewees 19. Chapter 16: System Design Cheat Sheet 20. Index

Distributed Systems Building Blocks: DNS, Load Balancers, and Application Gateways

In this chapter, we shift our focus to the essential building blocks that are instrumental in crafting robust, scalable, and efficient systems. Mastering the intricacies of the Domain Name System (DNS), load balancers, and application gateways allows for a granular, bottom-up approach to system design, a complement to the theoretical principles discussed in previous chapters.

The knowledge gained here will not only deepen your understanding of system architecture but will also provide you with practical skills that are useful in real-world applications. From ensuring global connectivity with DNS to optimizing server performance with load balancers, and further securing your applications through application gateways, this chapter equips you to tackle complex design challenges head-on.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Exploring DNS
  • Load balancers
  • Application gateways...
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Dhirendra Sinha is a Software Engineering Manager at Google. He is an angel investor and has served as a Strategic and Technology advisor at a few startups. Dhirendra has around two decades of experience in the Software Engineering field building highly scalable complex distributed systems and managing multiple Engineering teams. While he has experience in working at large companies such as Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo, and Google, he has also been involved with early and late-stage startups in leadership positions. In addition to his strong Software Engineering experience, he has been teaching the Distributed System Design course for the last seven years. He has also been coaching and mentoring Software Engineers and Software Engineering Managers for over a decade. He completed his Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Guwahati and Master of Science from Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas.
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Tejas Chopra is a Senior Engineer at Netflix working on building the Machine Learning Platform powering Netflix recommendations and personalization. He is also a Co-founder at GoEB1, which is the world's first thought leadership platform for immigrants. Tejas is a recipient of the prestigious EB1A (Einstein) visa in the US. He is a Tech 40 under 40 Award winner, a 2xTEDx speaker, a British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow, and has spoken at conferences and panels on Cloud Computing, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Software Development, and Engineering Leadership. Tejas has been awarded the “International Achievers Award, 2023” by the Indian Achievers' Forum. He is an Adjunct Professor of Software Development at the University of Advancing Technology, Arizona, an Angel Investor, and has previously been an Advisor to startups such as Nillion, Inc. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for Future of Memory and Storage Summit. Tejas' experience has been in companies such as Box, Apple, Samsung, Cadence, and Datrium. Tejas holds a Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
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