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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 Limit..

Step 1: Understand the Problem and Establish Design Scope Step 2: Propose High-level Design Step 3: Design Deep Dive References System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide, Alex Xu & Sahn Lam