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System design concepts I’d master if I wanted to crush it. Bookmark this. 1.Consistent Hashing 2.Sharding 3.CAP Theorem 4.Quorum Consensus 5.Leader Election 6.Raft & Paxos 7.Gossip Protocol 8.Vector Clocks 9.Load Shedding 10.Circuit Breakers 11.Backpressure 12.Tail Latency

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@asmah2107 This is the cheat sheet everyone pretends they don't need.

@asmah2107 Arpit @arpit_bhayani taught consistent hashing so well i would never forget it

@asmah2107 Ashutosh, that's a solid list for system design, no doubt! But remember, practical application is key, boss.

@asmah2107 most of these are just fancy names never used if you actually try to build your startups...having build a few ik quiet well....these are required once u cross like 5k members as per requirement if u run microservice. monolith runs flawless in anycase

@asmah2107 Excellent list! I'd add "Bloom Filters" and "Distributed Tracing" to round it out. These concepts are essential for building robust distributed systems. 📊

@asmah2107 I understand what you’re saying, but mastering Paxos is a pretty steep objective by itself.

Most engineers learn system design backwards. They jump to Kubernetes before they understand what a network packet even does. Here’s the order that actually makes you dangerous: 1. Networks first HTTP. TCP. DNS. Latency vs throughput. This is the part nobody studies. This is

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Don’t overthink backend. • Learn HTTP → how the web talks • Learn Databases → how data lives • Learn Caching → how apps get fast • Learn Auth → how users stay safe • Learn APIs → how systems connect • Learn Background Jobs → how work happens async • Learn Logging &

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Microservices - Key Design Patterns 📌 Pro Tip - Always start with a Monolith. 😊 And as your application grows and specific components become bottlenecks or need independent scaling, gradually break them out into microservices. 📌 Do you know? Netflix was a pioneer in

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