
Princeton Afeez
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Princeton Afeez
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25 system design concepts every engineer should understand: 1. Scalability: handling growth without breaking. 2. Load balancing: distributing traffic across servers. 3. Caching: reducing repeated work. 4. Consistency models: strong vs eventual tradeoffs. 5. CAP theorem: consistency, availability, partition tolerance. 6. Sharding: splitting data across machines. 7. Replication: copying data for reliability. 8. Indexing: faster data retrieval. 9. Rate limiting: controlling traffic spikes. 10. Queues: async task handling. 11. Idempotency: safe retries. 12. Circuit breaker: stopping cascading failures. 13. API gateway: centralized request handling. 14. CDN: serving content closer to users. 15. Event-driven systems: async communication. 16. Database normalization: structured data design. 17. Denormalization: performance tradeoffs. 18. Observability: logs, metrics, traces. 19. Fault tolerance: surviving failures. 20. Horizontal scaling: adding more machines. 21. Vertical scaling: increasing machine power. 22. Backpressure: controlling overload. 23. Data partitioning: splitting datasets logically. 24. Service discovery: locating services dynamically. 25. Consistent hashing: stable distribution of data.





