systems design

systems designwip

Core Concepts

performance vs correctness

Failure

partial failurewip

network partitionswip

cascading failures

latency vs outage

failure detection

Architecture

the monolithwip

service decompositionwip

event-driven architecturewip

cqrs and event sourcingplanned

serverlessplanned

Data

storage modelsplanned

replicationplanned

consistency modelsplanned

partitioningplanned

Communication

communicationplanned

sync vs asyncplanned

rest and httpplanned

grpc and protobufplanned

message queuesplanned

backpressureplanned

Resilience

resilienceplanned

timeouts and retriesplanned

circuit breakersplanned

bulkheadsplanned

rate limitingplanned

graceful degradationplanned

Scale

finding the bottleneckplanned

load balancingplanned

horizontal scalingplanned

database scalingplanned

Observability

observabilityplanned

alertingplanned

connecting the signalsplanned

status

this chapter is planned

content is outlined and scheduled. check back soon for the first publish.

cdn and edge

what moves to the edge and why.