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

DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that uses SSD storage and is spread across three geographically distinct data centers. It is highly available, with replication across multiple availability zones. DynamoDB is a great choice for applications that need very low latency access to data, the ability to scale storage and throughput up or down as needed, and high availability and durability of data.

Let’s understand some aspects of the DynamoDB design that are useful as system design practitioners. Some of our design principles of a generic key-value store are directly applicable to DynamoDB.

No fixed schema

DynamoDB aims to have no fixed schema in its design. This allows DynamoDB to support a multitude of applications and use cases. To meet the diverse needs of a broad customer base...