📄️ System Design Foundations & Architectural Thinking
Most people think system design is:
📄️ Storage, Databases, Indexing, Sharding
“Data outlives code.”
📄️ Caching, CDNs, Queues, Streams & Backpressure
Caching is the #1 tool used in industry to achieve massive performance gains.
📄️ API Design, Authentication & Authorization
A good API is:
📄️ Distributed Systems, Consensus & Fault Tolerance
A distributed system is:
📄️ High Availability, Scaling & Reliability Engineering
SECTION 1 — HIGH AVAILABILITY (HA) MINDSET
📄️ Case Study: Designing a Rate Limiter
Your public API is being abused.