[System Design] System Design Diagramming Notes

 

 

Building Blocks

1) Domain Name System

2) Load Balancers

• is used to fairly distribute incoming clients’ requests among a pool of available servers.
• also reduces load and can bypass failed servers.

Examples:

 

3) Databases

 

4) Key-Value Store

 

5) Content Delivery Network

 

 

6) Sequencer

 

7) Service Monitoring

 

8) Distributed Caching

 

9) Distributed Messaging Queue

 

10) Publish-Subscribe System

 

11) Rate Limiter

 

12) Blob Store

 

13) Distributed Search

 

14) Dsitrubted Logging

 

15) Distributed Task Scheduling

 

16) Sharded Counters