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System designMessaging and streams

Scaling & load balancing

Hard3 min read

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Zero-downtime deploys for a small web appEasy25 min Report card day for a school district portalEasy25 min Read replica staleness routingMedium40 min Load balancing variable-cost requestsMedium35 min TLS terminating reverse proxyMedium35 min Design reverse proxy connection poolingMedium35 min Canary rollout with metric-driven promotionMedium35 min High-volume webhook deliveryMedium40 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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