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

Alerting in a distributed system

Alerting is a crucial aspect of maintaining the health of a distributed system. It serves as a proactive measure to identify potential issues before they escalate into significant problems, ensuring system reliability and performance.

Alerting is an essential part of any monitoring strategy. It provides real-time notifications about system anomalies, errors, or performance issues. Without an effective alerting mechanism, teams may remain unaware of critical issues until they have caused significant damage or downtime.

Alerts can be triggered based on various conditions, such as exceeding a certain threshold of error rate, response time, or resource usage. They can also be triggered based on specific events, such as a service failure or a system-wide outage.

It is important as a system design architect to design effective and actionable alerts, without overwhelming support. We will therefore discuss this topic, some open-source tools for alerting...