Design a Scalable System from Scratch — Full Blueprint (System Design #15)
You've learned the pieces. Now let's put them all together and design a real scalable system from scratch — the way it's done in interviews and in production.
You’ve learned the pieces. Now let’s put them all together and design a real scalable system from scratch — the way it’s done in interviews and in production.
What’s in the video (8m 55s)
- 0:00 — System Design Introduction
- 1:28 — System Design Blueprint and Goals
- 2:12 — Handling the Scale - One Server to Many
- 2:41 — Vertical Scaling vs Horizontal Scaling
- 3:13 — What is a Load Balancer?
- 3:37 — Solving the Data Problem in System Design
- 3:51 — What is Caching?
- 4:17 — SQL vs NoSQL
- 4:49 — Data Partitioning or Sharding
- 5:10 — Designing for Failure
- 5:28 — What is Replication?
- 5:51 — The CAP Theorem
- 6:40 — Monolith vs Microservices
- 7:30 — System Design Learning Blueprint
Resources
- Full System Design series: YouTube playlist
- Previous episode: https://youtu.be/4-1IFz8Onv0
- Next episode: https://youtu.be/07wWPNIStMY
For more in this series, visit the #system-design tag page or jump to the channel uploads list for everything else.
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