6 System Design Articles and Case Studies for Developers
My favorite system design articles and case studies
Hello guys, welcome to this free issue of Javarevisited Newsletter. From last few episodes we are talking about Java interview questions like
in today’s free post, I am going to share with you a couple of great articles on System design and Software architecture which you can read this weekend.
These are quite in-depth articles and you will learn a lot about how real world system works, how common problems are solved and how to build Software which are robust, scalable and can withstand test of time in production. Some articles will also help you to prepare for System design interviews.
So, without any further ado, let’s jump into some awesome System design case studies and articles
1. 8 Reasons Why WhatsApp Was Able to Support 50 Billion Messages a Day With Only 32 Engineers
This post outlines the incredible story of WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum. And the engineering techniques used to scale WhatsApp. You should definitely read this post by
and if you wan to keep yourself updated, you can also subscribe his .2. HeartBeats: How Distributed Systems Stay Alive by
Heartbeats are one of the oldest way to check if things are ok or not but how does they work, you will find in this article
3. 10 System Design Topics You Must Prepare for Tech Interviews
This another great article where you will learn about key system design topics for interviews like
1. Caching
2. Sharding
3. load-balancing
4. replication
5. fault-tolerance
6. high-avaibility
7. Performance
8. scalability
9. Performance
10. Indexing
4. How PayPal Was Able to Support a Billion Transactions per Day With Only 8 Virtual Machines
This post outlines how PayPal scaled to a billion daily transactions with only 8 virtual machines.
5. How to Answer a System Design Interview Problem
This is another great article by
where you will learn how to answer any System design problem on interviews. It is filled great tips and method which you can follow. If you are preparing for System design interview, you can also subscribe to his newsletter, its free.6. What is Kafka? Architecture Deep Dive
This is my latest article, in case you haven’t read, A deep dive into Apache Kafka architecture and inner working
7. Creating Software Diagrams using Mermaid Charts
In this video, we have shared another AI powered tool Mermaid Charts to create software diagrams. Mermaid Charts combines the power of ChatGPT and Mermaid.js for turbo charging your diagraming capability.
That’s all guys, 6 articles and 1 video is I guess enough for a weak. You an read these articles to learn about System design at scale. You can also use AI powered tools like Mermaid Charts to build software diagrams for better communication.
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