Karan Pratap Singh articles - 145 total
System Design: Uber
Let's design an Uber like ride-hailing service, similar to services like Lyft, OLA Cabs, etc. ...
System Design: Netflix
Let's design a Netflix like video streaming service, similar to services like Amazon Prime Video,...
System Design: Twitter
Let's design a Twitter like social media service, similar to services like Facebook, Instagram,...
System Design: WhatsApp
Let's design a Whatsapp like instant messaging service, similar to services like Whatsapp, Facebook...
System Design: URL Shortener
Let's design a URL shortener, similar to services like Bitly, TinyURL. What is a URL...
System Design: System Design Interviews
System design is a very extensive topic and system design interviews are designed to evaluate your...
System Design: SSL, TLS, mTLS
Let's briefly discuss some important communication security protocols such as SSL, TLS, and mTLS. I...
System Design: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Single Sign-On (SSO) is an authentication process in which a user is provided access to multiple...
System Design: OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC)
OAuth 2.0 OAuth 2.0, which stands for Open Authorization, is a standard designed to...
System Design: Virtual Machines (VMs) and Containers
Before we discuss virtualization vs containerization, let's learn what are virtual machines (VMs) and...
System Design: Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery (DR) is a process of regaining access and functionality of the infrastructure after...
System Design: SLA, SLO, SLI
Let's briefly discuss SLA, SLO, and SLI. These are mostly related to the business and site...
System Design: Service Discovery
Service discovery is the detection of services within a computer network. Service Discovery Protocol...
System Design: Rate Limiting
Rate limiting refers to preventing the frequency of an operation from exceeding a defined limit. In...
System Design: Circuit breaker
The circuit breaker is a design pattern used to detect failures and encapsulates the logic of...
System Design: Geohashing and Quadtrees
Geohashing Geohashing is a geocoding method used to encode geographic coordinates such as...
System Design: Long polling, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE)
Web applications were initially developed around a client-server model, where the web client is...
System Design: REST, GraphQL, gRPC
A good API design is always a crucial part of any system. But it is also important to pick the right...
System Design: API Gateway
The API Gateway is an API management tool that sits between a client and a collection of backend...
System Design: Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is an architectural pattern that divides a system's...
System Design: Event Sourcing
Instead of storing just the current state of the data in a domain, use an append-only store to record...
System Design: Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is about using events as a way to communicate within a system....
System Design: Monoliths and Microservices
Monoliths A monolith is a self-contained and independent application. It is built as a...
System Design: Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is an architectural pattern whereby a centralized software component...
System Design: Publish-Subscribe
Similar to a message queue, publish-subscribe is also a form of service-to-service communication that...
System Design: Message Queues
A message queue is a form of service-to-service communication that facilitates asynchronous...
System Design: Message Brokers
A message broker is a software that enables applications, systems, and services to communicate with...
System Design: N-tier architecture
N-tier architecture divides an application into logical layers and physical tiers. Layers are a way...
System Design: Database Federation
Federation (or functional partitioning) splits up databases by function. The federation architecture...
System Design: Consistent Hashing
Let's first understand the problem we're trying to solve. Why do we need this? In...