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

The evolution of distributed systems

Distributed systems have evolved from monolithic architectures, where components are tightly coupled and reside in a single service, to microservices architectures, where services are decoupled and communicated via message passing. A distributed queue is a queue that is spread across multiple servers. It allows for the storage and forwarding of messages. Queues are typically used in scenarios where it’s crucial to process messages in the order they were sent or where each message is intended for a single consumer. The upcoming sections will delve deeper into designing and implementing distributed queues and pub/sub systems.

Designing a distributed queue

Distributed queues are a fundamental part of modern distributed systems. They provide a reliable way to process and distribute messages across different parts of a system, ensuring that the load is balanced and that the system can scale with demand. Let us now learn about the advantages...