System Design Interview Ready Notes 🚀
System design study notes prepared from various resources including Interviewready, tech blogs, and specialized books. These notes cover fundamental concepts, architectural patterns, and practical strategies for building scalable systems.
📚 Index
🏁 Foundations
- System Design Foundations - Core principles and high-level overview.
- Reliability - Understanding availability, fault tolerance, and system health.
🌐 Networking & Traffic Management
- DNS (Domain Name System) - How the internet resolves addresses.
- Load Balancing - Distributing traffic across servers and algorithms.
- CDN (Content Delivery Network) - Global content delivery and latency reduction.
- Rate Limiting - Protecting services from abuse and traffic spikes.
⚡ Performance & Scalability
- Distributed Caching - Caching strategies, eviction policies, and consistent hashing.
- High Latency - Identifying and mitigating performance bottlenecks.
- Handling Traffic Surges - Strategies for managing sudden load increases.
🏗️ Architecture & Deployment
- Microservices - Decoupling systems into smaller, manageable services.
📊 Visual Guides & Diagrams
The repository contains several diagrams to help visualize complex concepts:
- Caching: Consistent Hashing, Cache Architecture
- Deployment: Local vs Cloud, Server vs Serverless
- Traffic: Load Balancing Algorithms, Rate Limiting
Note: These notes are prepared from resources like Interviewready. These are work in progress and will be updated regularly. Some of these notes might be refined with AI for clarity.