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

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805124993

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Dhirendra Sinha

Tejas Chopra

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of System Design

2. Chapter 1: Basics of System Design FREE CHAPTER

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: