System Design Playlist

By Gaurav Sen

Master the architectural blueprints of high-scale distributed systems. This comprehensive guide covers critical fundamentals from load balancing and consistent hashing to message queues, database sharding, and microservices. Through real-world case studies like Tinder, you will learn to design resilient, event-driven architectures, draft precise API contracts, perform capacity planning, and confidently ace your next system design interview.

Table of Contents

System Design Playlist

Table of Contents

System Design Primer ⭐️: How to start with distributed systems?

System Design BASICS: Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling

What is LOAD BALANCING? ⚖️

What is CONSISTENT HASHING and Where is it used?

What is a MESSAGE QUEUE and Where is it used?

What is a MICROSERVICE ARCHITECTURE and what are its advantages?

What is DATABASE SHARDING?

Caching in distributed systems: A friendly introduction

How to avoid a single point of failure in distributed systems ✅

What is a CDN (Content Delivery Network)?

What is the Publisher Subscriber Model?

What's an Event Driven System?

Introduction to NoSQL databases

What is an API and how do you design it? 🗒️✅

System Design: TINDER as a microservice architecture

Designing INSTAGRAM: System Design of News Feed

WHATSAPP System Design: Chat Messaging Systems for Interviews

How NETFLIX onboards new content: Video Processing at scale 🎥

Capacity Planning and Estimation: How much data does YouTube store daily?

How databases scale writes: The power of the log ✍️🗒️

Distributed Consensus and Data Replication strategies on the server

Designing a location database: QuadTrees and Hilbert Curves

Data Consistency and Tradeoffs in Distributed Systems

System Design Interview: TikTok architecture with @sudocode

5 Tips for System Design Interviews

System Design Walkthrough at InterviewReady - Designed for SDE 1 to SDE 3 Interview Preparation