Inside front cover
This is a quick lookup guide for common considerations in system design. After you read the book, you can refer to the appropriate sections when you design or review a scalable/distributed system and need a refresher or reference on a particular concept.
| Concept |
Chapter(s)/section(s) |
|---|---|
| Tradeoffs |
1.1, 2 |
| A simple full stack design |
1.4 |
| Functional partitioning, centralization of cross-cutting concerns |
1.4.6, 6 |
| Requirements |
2, 3 |
| Logging, monitoring, alerting |
2.5 |
| Distributed databases |
4 |
| Sampling |
4.5, 11.8-10 |
| Distributed transactions |
5 |
| Library vs. service |
6.6, 12.6 |
| REST, RPC, GraphQL, WebSocket |
6.7 |
| Graceful degradation |
2, 3.3 |
| Data migrations |
7.7 |
| Distributed rate limiting |
8 |
| Distributed notification service |
9 |
| Data quality |
2.5.5, 10 (also covers auditing) |
| Exactly-once delivery |
14 |
| Personalization |
1.4, 16 |
| Lambda architecture |
17 |
| Authentication and authorization |
13.3, appendix B |