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

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

Cloud-native implementations

Leading cloud providers offer fully managed application gateway services that integrate tightly with their technology stacks:

AWS: Amazon API Gateway handles API creation, deployment, management, and security. Application Load Balancer routes traffic to AWS services and containers.
Microsoft Azure: Azure Application Gateway provides advanced Layer 7 load balancing along with WAF, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) offload, end-to-end TLS encryption, and autoscaling capabilities.
Google Cloud Platform: Cloud Armor provides DDoS protection and a WAF that integrates with Google’s network infrastructure. Cloud CDN (Content Distribution Network) offers caching and acceleration.
Kubernetes environments: Ingress controllers such as Istio, Kong, Traefik, and Ambassador act as API gateways for Kubernetes clusters, handling ingress HTTP/HTTPS traffic.

These serverless, auto-scaling gateways simplify operational overhead for organizations...

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