SYSTEM DESIGN 👩‍💻 🕸 👨‍💻

System Design Interviews are always interesting, and I've wanted to go take courses on them for a long time. If you're reading this, I hope you enjoy this repository. It is like a living document and will likely be updated throughout my career.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Step-by-Step Guide
2. Concepts
   • Key Characteristics of Distributed Systems
   • Load Balancing
   • Caching
   • Data Partitioning
   • Replication
   • Indexes
   • Proxies
   • SQL vs. NoSQL
   • CAP Theorem
   • Consistent Hashing
   • Communication Protocols
   • Estimating Capacity
3. Questions
   • Scale From Zero to Millions
   • Design a Rate Limiter
   • URL Shortener 🚧 Under Construction 🚧

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• My parents, for teaching me to learn and work hard at what I like to do.
• As always, thanks Lambda School for starting me on this path. You are an amazing company.
• Thanks to Twitter and Loom for paying for classes that help with my ongoing learning. It's great to work at a company that does that for its employees.