Archive - System Design Newsletter

How Facebook Was Able to Support a Billion Users via Software Load Balancer ⚡

#58: Break into Meta Engineering (5 minutes)

8 hrs ago •

September 2024

How Google Search Works 🔥

#57: Break Into Google Search Engine Architecture (6 Minutes)

Sep 30 •

Amazon Frugal Architecture Explained 💰

#56: And How to Properly Scale Your Business (5 Minutes)

Sep 15 •

How Amazon Lambda Works 🔥

#55: Break Into Amazon Engineering (6 Minutes)

Sep 3 •

August 2024

How to Scale an App to 100 Million Users on GCP 🚀

#54: A Simple Guide to Scalability (7 minutes)

Aug 20 •

How Netflix Uses Chaos Engineering to Create Resilience Systems 🐒

#53: Break Into Netflix Engineering (4 minutes)

Aug 5 •

July 2024

How Meta Achieves 99.99999999% Cache Consistency 🎯

#52: Break Into Meta Engineering (4 minutes)

Jul 18 •

How Halo Scaled to 11.6 Million Users Using the Saga Design Pattern 🎮

#51: Break Into Saga Design Pattern (4 Minutes)

Jul 4 •

June 2024

Why Is Redis a Distributed Swiss Army Knife 💭

#50: Break Into Redis Use Cases (5 Minutes)

Jun 20 •

How Instagram Scaled to 2.5 Billion Users

#49: Break Into Instagram Scalability Techniques (7 minutes)

Jun 11 •

May 2024

How YouTube Was Able to Support 2.49 Billion Users With MySQL

#48: Break Into Vitess Architecture (4 minutes)

May 31 •

How Facebook Scaled Live Video to a Billion Users

#47: Break Into Live Streaming Architecture (6 minutes)

May 24 •

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