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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

Basics of System Design

System design is an essential process in software engineering that involves designing a software system’s architecture, components, interfaces, and data management strategies. A well-designed system can improve the system’s overall performance, user experience, and security while reducing development costs and time.

This chapter introduces the topic of software system design and talks about the various types and the significance of system design in the software industry. The chapter also discusses system design’s impact on software development, maintenance, and overall system performance. By the end of this chapter, you will have a good background in software system design and its importance in software development and have the motivation to dive into this topic even further.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • What is system design?
  • What are the different types of system design?
  • Importance of system design...
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System Design Guide for Software Professionals
Published in: Aug 2024
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