Scalability vs Reliability vs Availability - Simply Explained (System Design #2)
What separates a good software system from a bad one? It comes down to 5 key characteristics - and most engineers can't clearly explain all of them.
What separates a good software system from a bad one? It comes down to 5 key characteristics - and most engineers can’t clearly explain all of them.
What’s in the video (7m 2s)
- 0:00 — What makes a Good System, Good?
- 1:09 — Key Characteristics of a Good System
- 1:27 — What is Scalability?
- 1:57 — Horizontal Scalability (Scaling Out) vs Vertical Scalability (Scaling Up)
- 2:27 — Availability vs Reliability
- 2:42 — What is Reliability?
- 3:25 — What is Availability?
- 4:14 — Efficiency and Manageability
- 4:31 — What is Efficiency?
- 4:50 — What is Manageability?
- 5:32 — System Design Tradeoffs
Resources
- Full System Design series: YouTube playlist
- Previous episode: https://youtu.be/284vPdx5oKE
- Next episode: https://youtu.be/GbBVHf2sAns
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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