This article is a proposal for my blog series. I plan to write a systematic tutorial for system design, especially practical knowledge for interviews. This is a long learning journey for me. I hope you could find it helpful as well. Foundation So far, I’ve written a series to refresh memory…

System Design Refresher series review fundamental knowledge about system design. I hope this series could serve as a good refresher for you before going into a system design interview. This series consists of 4 parts: Part 1: Basic Concepts in Distributed System Part 2: Data Replication (TBD) Part 3: ACID…

System Design Refresher series review fundamental knowledge about system design. I hope this series could serve as a good refresher for you before going into a system design interview. This series consists of 4 parts: Part 1: Basic Concepts in Distributed System Part 2: Data Replication (TBD) Part 3: ACID…

System Design Refresher series review fundamental knowledge about system design. I hope this series could serve as a good refresher for you before going into a system design interview. This series consists of 4 parts: Part 1: Basic Concepts in Distributed System Part 2: Data Replication (TBD) Part 3: ACID…

This blog explains the “big picture” of Kafka with big pictures. The goal is to build a high-level mental model about how Kafka works under the hood. After reading this article, you would feel more comfortable using Kafka in system design interviews. Why use Kafka? Kafka is built to solve complex communication problems…

Paper: http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2020/papers/spanner.pdf Spanner is a globally (multi-region, multi-datacenter) distributed database. It offers high availability and strong consistency, which is rare combination in modern database design. Traditional database, e.g. MySQL, offers ACID transaction. ACID is a strongly consistent programming model. However, ACID database struggles to scale out to more than tens…