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

Distributed systems logging

In a distributed system, where multiple services are running on different machines, logging becomes a critical aspect of system monitoring and debugging.

Logging is the process of recording events in a system. It provides a way to understand what’s happening inside your application, helping you identify patterns, detect anomalies, and troubleshoot issues. In a distributed system, logs from different services can provide a holistic view of the system’s behavior, making it easier to identify and resolve issues. Most large-scale systems use some form of centralized logging infrastructure, where logs are collected from different systems into a central logging repository. We will now delve into centralized logging.

Centralized logging

In a distributed system, logs are generated by different services running on different machines. These logs need to be collected and stored in a central location for easy access and analysis. This is known...