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System designMessaging and streams

Queues & streaming

Hard3 min read

Questions it teaches

Email job queueEasy30 min Kitchen order screens for a restaurant groupEasy30 min Sending orders to a print partnerEasy25 min Order-dispatch queueMedium35 min Delayed job queueMedium35 min Delayed job schedulerMedium40 min Footfall dwell analyticsMedium45 min IoT device pub-sub and commandsMedium45 min

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Messaging and streams Data modeling and storage Consistency and money Reliability and failover Pipelines and analytics Real-time systems Scale and caching

Builds on: Data modeling and storage

Designing a parking lot4 min Designing a pastebin3 min

Leads to: Consistency and money

E-commerce inventory (overselling)3 min QR ticketing3 min

Leads to: Reliability and failover

Observability systems3 min Anomaly detection3 min

Leads to: Pipelines and analytics

Analytics architecture3 min Data pipelines & warehousing3 min

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