ADevGuide System Design
Interview-focused and production-oriented architecture guides covering trade-offs, scalability, reliability, and distributed system patterns.
Explore subtopics:
-
What Is Hashing? Why It Matters in Modern Software Architecture
Series: Database Scalability Series
Learn hashing in software architecture: data distribution, cache keys, security, consistency, and performance trade-offs used in real production systems.
-
System Design Interview: Notification System CheatSheet
Series: CheatSheets
Use this notification system design interview cheat sheet to remember queue patterns, retries, channel routing, and performance trade-offs.
-
System Design Interview: Rate Limiter CheatSheet
Series: CheatSheets
Use this rate limiter system design interview cheat sheet to recall algorithms, Redis patterns, edge cases, and scaling math in minutes.
-
System Design Interview: Twitter News Feed CheatSheet
Series: CheatSheets
Prepare faster with a Twitter news feed system design interview cheat sheet covering fan-out choices, feed ranking, caching, and trade-offs.
-
System Design Interview: URL Shortener CheatSheet
Series: CheatSheets
Crack the URL shortener system design interview with this cheat sheet on APIs, Base62 keys, storage estimates, caching, and follow-up answers.
-
System Design Interview: Ultimate Cheatsheet to Crack Any Round
Series: CheatSheets
Master your next system design interview with this practical cheatsheet covering requirements, architecture, scaling math, trade-offs, security, and follow-ups.
-
What is Database Sharding? A Complete Guide with Real-World Examples
Series: Database Scalability Series
Learn what database sharding is, how it scales applications like Instagram, and explore key strategies like horizontal partitioning with real-world examples.
-
System Design Interview: Distributed Cache Like Redis/Memcached
Series: System Design Interview Series
Master the distributed cache system design interview. Learn consistent hashing, eviction policies (LRU/LFU), and how to scale like Redis and Memcached.
-
System Design Interview: Design a Rate Limiter
Series: System Design Interview Series
Master the rate limiter system design interview. Explore token bucket, leaky bucket algorithms, distributed rate limiting with Redis, and race conditions.
-
System Design Interview: Design WhatsApp Chat System
Series: System Design Interview Series
Learn to design a scalable chat system like WhatsApp. Covers real-time messaging, WebSocket, last seen details, and end-to-end encryption.