# System Design Resources These are the best resources for System Design on the Internet. ## ### Video Processing Transcoding Videos at Scale: https://www.egnyte.com/blog/2018/12/transcoding-how-we-serve-videos-at-scale/ Facebook Video Broadcasting: https://engineering.fb.com/ios/under-the-hood-broadcasting-live-video-to-millions/ Netflix Video Encoding at Scale: https://netflixtechblog.com/high-quality-video-encoding-at-scale-d159db052746 Netflix Shot based encoding: https://netflixtechblog.com/optimized-shot-based-encodes-now-streaming-4b9464204830 ## ### Cluster and Workflow Management Facebook Cluster Management: https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/twine/ Google Autopilot - Autoscaling: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3342195.3387524 Netflix Workflow Orchestration: https://netflix.github.io/conductor/ Opensource Workflow Management: https://github.com/spotify/luigi Meta Hardware Management: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/12/09/data-center-engineering/how-facebook-keeps-its-large-scale-infrastructure-hardware-up-and-running/ ## ### Intra-Service Messaging What is a message queue: https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/what-is-message-queuing.html AirBnb Idempotency: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/avoiding-double-payments-in-a-distributed-payments-system-2981f6b070bb Nginx Service Mesh: https://www.nginx.com/learn/service-mesh/ ## ### Message Queue Antipattern DB as queue Antipattern: http://blog.codepath.com/2012/11/15/asynchronous-processing-in-web-applications-part-1-a-database-is-not-a-queue/ Using a database as a message queue: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/231410/why-database-as-queue-so-bad Anti-pattern of DB as a queue: http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/04/database-as-queue-anti-pattern.html Drawbacks of DB as a queue: https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/why-is-a-database-not-the-right-tool-for-a-queue-based-system.html ## ### Service Mesh Kubernetes Service Mesh: https://akomljen.com/kubernetes-service-mesh/ Kubernetes Sidecar:https://www.weave.works/blog/introduction-to-service-meshes-on-kubernetes-and-progressive-delivery Service Mesh: https://www.weave.works/blog/introduction-to-service-meshes-on-kubernetes-and-progressive-delivery NginX Service Mesh: https://www.nginx.com/learn/service-mesh/ ## ### Practical System Design Facebook Messenger Optimisations: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-facebooks-software-engineers-prepare-messenger-for-new-years-eve YouTube Architecture: http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture YouTube scalability 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5WVu624fY8 Distributed Design Patterns: http://horicky.blogspot.com/2010/10/scalable-system-design-patterns.html Monolith to Microservice: https://martinfowler.com/articles/break-monolith-into-microservices.html ## ### Distributed File System Open Source Distributed File System: https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/architecture/ Amazon S3 Performance hacks: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-performance-tips-tricks-seattle-hiring-event/ Amazon S3 object expiration: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-object-expiration/ ## ### Time Series Databases Pintrest Time Series Database: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/goku-building-a-scalable-and-high-performant-time-series-database-system-a8ff5758a181 Uber Time Series DB: https://eng.uber.com/aresdb/ TimeSeries Relational DB: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/time-series-data-why-and-how-to-use-a-relational-database-instead-of-nosql-d0cd6975e87c/ Facebook Gorilla Time Series DB: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf ## ### Rate Limiting Circuit Breaker Algorithm: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CircuitBreaker.html Uber Rate Limiter: https://github.com/uber-go/ratelimit/blob/master/ratelimit.go ## ### In Memory Database - Redis Redis Official Documentation : https://redis.com/ Learn Redis through Redis University : https://university.redis.com/ Redis Open Source Repo : https://github.com/redis/redis Redis Architechture : https://medium.com/opstree-technology/redis-cluster-architecture-replication-sharding-and-failover-86871e783ac0 ## ### Network Protocols What is HTTP: https://engineering.cred.club/head-of-line-hol-blocking-in-http-1-and-http-2-50b24e9e3372 QUIC Protocol: https://www.akamai.com/blog/performance/http3-and-quic-past-present-and-future TCP Protocol algorithms: https://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf (First 10 pages are important) WebRTC: https://webrtc.github.io/webrtc-org/blog/2012/07/23/a-great-introduction-to-webrtc.html WebSockets: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6455#section-1.2 ## ### Chess Engine Design Chess Engine Building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ogK0MIzqk ## ### Subscription Management System Subscription Manager: https://netflixtechblog.com/building-a-rule-based-platform-to-manage-netflix-membership-skus-at-scale-e3c0f82aa7bc ## ### Google Docs Operational Transform: http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/understanding-and-applying-operational-transformation Google Docs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFzWZrsPV0&list=PLXDe3d8o9VFtydBV5biyz9iS3WqKsBMD5&index=3 ## ### API Design API Design: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/building-services-at-airbnb-part-1-c4c1d8fa811b Swagger APIs: https://swagger.io/docs/specification/about/ ## ### NoSQL Database Internals Cassandra Architecture: https://docs.datastax.com/en/archived/cassandra/3.0/cassandra/architecture/archIntro.html Google BigTable Architecture: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf Amazon Dynamo DB Internals: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html Design Patterns in Amazon Dynamo DB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEPXoXVf2k Internals of Amazon Dynamo DB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBR71D0nAQ ## ### NoSQL Database Algorithms Hyperloglog Algorithm: https://odino.org/my-favorite-data-structure-hyperloglog/ Log Structured Merge Tree: https://www.cs.umb.edu/~poneil/lsmtree.pdf Sorted String Tables and Compaction Strategies: https://github.com/scylladb/scylla/wiki/SSTable-compaction-and-compaction-strategies Leveled Compaction Cassandra: https://www.datastax.com/blog/leveled-compaction-apache-cassandra Scylla DB Compaction: https://github.com/scylladb/scylla/wiki/SSTable-compaction-and-compaction-strategies Indexing in Cassandra: https://www.bmc.com/blogs/cassandra-clustering-columns-partition-composite-key/ ## ### Database Replication Database replication: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/replication.html Netflix Data replication - Change Data Capture: https://netflixtechblog.com/dblog-a-generic-change-data-capture-framework-69351fb9099b LinkedIn Logging Usecases: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying ## ### Containers and Docker Facebook Twine Containerization: https://engineering.fb.com/developer-tools/zookeeper-twine/ CloudFlare Containerization: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containers/ Docker Architecture: https://docs.docker.com/get-started/overview/#docker-architecture ## ### Capacity Estimation Google Capacity Estimation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=modXC5IWTJI Scalability at YouTube 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lGCC4KKok Back of envelope Calculations at AWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3qetLv2Yp0 Capacity Estimation: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//people/jeff/stanford-295-talk.pdf ## ### Publisher Subscriber Oracle Publisher Subscriber: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96590/adg15pub.htm Amazon Pub Sub Messaging: https://aws.amazon.com/pub-sub-messaging/ Asynchronous processing: http://blog.codepath.com/2013/01/06/asynchronous-processing-in-web-applications-part-2-developers-need-to-understand-message-queues/ Async Request Response: https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/conversation/RequestResponse.html ## ### Event Driven Architectures Martin Fowler- Event Driven Architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKCRSUsyP0 Event Driven Architecture: https://martinfowler.com/articles/201701-event-driven.html ## ### Hexagonal Architectures Hexagonal Architecture: https://netflixtechblog.com/ready-for-changes-with-hexagonal-architecture-b315ec967749 ## ### Microservices Monolith Architecture: https://buttercms.com/books/microservices-for-startups/should-you-always-start-with-a-monolith/ Monoliths vs Microservices: https://articles.microservices.com/monolithic-vs-microservices-architecture-5c4848858f59 Microservices: http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/4/5/do-you-have-too-many-microservices-five-design-attributes-th.html Uber Nanoservices antipattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-m2fasdDY Uber Domain oriented microservice: https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/ ## ### Load Balancing Load Balancer with Sticky Sessions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10494431/sticky-and-non-sticky-sessions Citrix what is load balancing: https://www.citrix.com/en-in/solutions/app-delivery-and-security/load-balancing/what-is-load-balancing.html Nginx Load Balancing: https://www.nginx.com/resources/glossary/load-balancing/ Consistent hashing: https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/consistent-hashing/ ## ### Alerts and Anomaly Detection Outlier Detection: https://towardsdatascience.com/outlier-detection-with-isolation-forest-3d190448d45e Anomaly Detection: https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-for-anomaly-detection-and-condition-monitoring-d4614e7de770 Uber Real Time Monitoring and Root Cause Analysis Argos: https://eng.uber.com/argos-real-time-alerts/ Microsoft Anomaly Detection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Xq9OLdQwQ&t=0s Facebook Data Engineering: https://engineering.fb.com/2016/05/09/core-data/introducing-fblearner-flow-facebook-s-ai-backbone/ LinkedIn Real Time Alerting: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/06/smart-alerts-in-thirdeye--linkedins-real-time-monitoring-platfor LinkedIn Isolation Forests: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/isolation-forest ## ### Distributed Logging Uber Distributed Request Tracing: https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/ Pintrest Logging: https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/open-sourcing-singer-pinterests-performant-and-reliable-logging-agent-610fecf35566 Google Monitoring Infrastructure: https://www.facebook.com/atscaleevents/videos/959344524420015/ ## ### Metrics and Text Search Engine Facebook real time text search engine: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=432864835468 Elastic Search Time Based Querying: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/time-based.html Elastic Search Aggregation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/aggregations.html ## ### Single Point of Failure Avoiding Single Points of Failure: https://medium.com/the-cloud-architect/patterns-for-resilient-architecture-part-3-16e8601c488e Netflix Multi-Region Availability: https://netflixtechblog.com/active-active-for-multi-regional-resiliency-c47719f6685b Oracle Single Points of failure: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19693-01/819-0992/fjdch/index.html DNS single point of failure 2004: http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm Sharding: https://medium.com/@jeeyoungk/how-sharding-works-b4dec46b3f6 ## ### Location Based Services Google S2 library: https://blog.christianperone.com/2015/08/googles-s2-geometry-on-the-sphere-cells-and-hilbert-curve/ ## ### Batch Processing Map Reduce Architecture: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf ## ### Real Time Stream Processing LinkedIn Brooklin- Real time data streaming: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/brooklin-open-source Netflix Real Time Stream Processing: https://netflixtechblog.com/keystone-real-time-stream-processing-platform-a3ee651812a ## ### Caching Google Guava Cache: https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/CachesExplained Caching (See the README): https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/ Caching: http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/25/design-of-a-modern-cache.html Microsoft Caching Guide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msp-n-p/dn589802(v%3dpandp.10) Caching patterns: https://hazelcast.com/blog/a-hitchhikers-guide-to-caching-patterns/ ## ### Distributed concensus Paxos: http://ifeanyi.co/posts/understanding-consensus/ Raft: https://raft.github.io/ ## ### Authorization Designing an Authorization Model for an Enterprise https://cerbos.dev/blog/designing-an-authorization-model-for-an-enterprise ## 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