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System Design Flow Overview

The document outlines a systematic approach to system design, starting with understanding the problem and defining use cases. It emphasizes the importance of considering constraints such as request rates and data storage needs. The final step involves creating an abstract design that includes service layers, infrastructure, and addressing potential bottlenecks.

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System Design Flow Overview

The document outlines a systematic approach to system design, starting with understanding the problem and defining use cases. It emphasizes the importance of considering constraints such as request rates and data storage needs. The final step involves creating an abstract design that includes service layers, infrastructure, and addressing potential bottlenecks.

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Natsu Dragoneel
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System

Design Flow

1. Understand the problem and scope:
- define the use cases, with interviewer's help
- suggest additional features
- remove items that interviewer deems out of scope
- assume high availability is required, add as a use case
2. Think about constraints:
- ask how many requests per month
- ask how many requests per second (they may volunteer it or
make you do the math)
- estimate reads vs. writes percentage
- keep 80/20 rule in mind when estimating
- how much data written per second
- total storage required over 5 years
- how much data read per second
3. Abstract design:
- layers (service, data, caching)
- infrastructure: load balancing, messaging
- rough overview of any key algorithm that drives the service
- consider bottlenecks and determine solutions

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