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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805124993
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhirendra Sinha Dhirendra Sinha
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Tejas Chopra Tejas Chopra
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

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

Designing a Service Like Twitter

In today’s digital landscape, social media platforms have revolutionized communication and information sharing. Twitter, currently know as X, is a microblogging service allowing users to share short messages called tweets, has emerged as a global phenomenon with millions of active users and billions of tweets generated daily. Designing a service like Twitter presents unique challenges in scalability, reliability, and user experience.

This chapter explores the system design of a Twitter-like service, applying our learnings from basic system design blocks to create a scalable and efficient platform. We will examine the core features, non-functional requirements, data models, and scale calculations that form the foundation of the system. Based on these, we’ll propose a high-level design architecture leveraging various components, such as load balancers, API gateways, caches, databases, and storage systems. We’ll also delve into...

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