Bitesized High-Level Overview of System Design Fundamentals

When designing systems it helps to consider i) system types, ii) characteristics, and iii) principles.

Awareness of products & services relevant to system design, construction, and O&M facilitates placing the principles into practice.

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What are your favorite system design concepts and tools?

References

System Types & Locations:

• Computer Networks

• Distributed Systems

Principles:

• System Design for Beginners Course

• Principles of System Design

Characteristics:

• Efficiency

• System Design Issues

• Performance

Existing Tools:

• Apache Hadoop

• Apache Zookeeper

• Amazon S3

• Azure Blob

• Consul

• Docker

• etcd

• Google Cloud Pub/Sub

• Google Cloud Storage

• InfluxDB

• kafka

• Kubernets

• mongoDB

• MySQL

• neo4j

• NGINX

• PostgreSQL

• Prometheus

• redis

Appendix

Tool Discovery & Comparison Websites:

• AwesomeOpenSource

• DB-Engines Ranking

• G2

• hntrends

• Openbase

• Opensource Builders

• Product Hunt

• Saas Hub

• Stackshare

• Wappalyzer

• Web³ Techs

Links to Categorized Tools:

• Application Hosting

• Build-Test-Deploy

• Data Stores

• Monitoring