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

System Design – Proximity Service

From location-based marketing to smart transportation systems to finding a nearby restaurant or a business, proximity services leverage the power of proximity data to enhance user experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new opportunities across various industries.

In this chapter, we will understand the complexities of designing proximity services starting from stating the functional and non-functional requirements, to thinking about the core challenges, APIs, data storage, and serving the read and write requests. We’ll also dive deeper into the technical concepts needed to break the problem down and form the foundations of the solution.

Understanding the principles behind proximity service design is essential for staying ahead in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital transformation. This chapter attempts to delve into the details of creating a large-scale system based on the proximity service.

We will cover the following...