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Introduction
What is the difference between fu...,
What are four common examples of ...,
What are the five most common for...
17
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Distributed Systems
What are the five aspects of a di...,
What s does scalability mean with...,
What are two forms of scalability...
38
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Data Partitioning
What is data partitioning 1,
What problem does data partitioni...,
What are the three major partitio...
8
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Indexes
What is indexing what benefit doe...,
What is a downside of indexing 2,
What should you consider before a...
3
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Proxies
What is a proxy or proxy server 1,
What does a proxy do 2,
What are four operations that for...
11
cards
Redundancy & Replication
What is redundancy what does it h...,
Why is redundancy important 2,
What problem does redundancy solve 3
10
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SQL Vs NoSQL
What are the two most common type...,
How does a relational database st...,
What are the four most common typ...
16
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CAP Theorem
What is cap theorem why is it imp...,
Which aspect of cap theorem canno...,
In practical terms which two opti...
6
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PACELC Theorem
In distributed systems a choice n...,
What is base compliance what does...,
How does a database transaction f...
8
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Consistent Hashing
What is data partitioning what is...,
What efficiently solved the probl...,
What are the two primarily challe...
16
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Long Polling, Sockets, and Server Events
What are three popular methods fo...,
What happens during an http reque...,
What is polling what about ajax p...
10
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Bloom Filters
What is a bloom filter 1,
What is one of the key benefits o...,
How do bloom filters handle false...
10
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Quorum
What is a quorum what role do the...,
What is the formula for determini...,
When determining the number of se...
14
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Leader and Follower
What s a problem that introducing...,
What solves the availability prob...,
What roles do the followers play ...
3
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Heartbeats
What role do heartbeats play in d...,
Describe how heartbeats are used ...
2
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Checksums
What role does a checksum serve 1,
How does a checksum work 2
2
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Strong vs. Eventual Consistency
What does consistency mean within...,
What are the two most common data...,
What is strong consistency 3
20
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Latency vs. Throughput
What is latency 1,
What are two characteristics of l...,
Why is latency important 3
14
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ACID vs. BASE
Explain what the two primary goal...,
Explain what the two primary goal...,
What are the four guarantees in a...
13
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Read-Through vs. Write-Through (Cache)
Why would you care about the impl...,
How does a read through cache wor...,
What are the pros of a read throu...
11
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Batch vs. Stream Processing
What are two common approaches fo...,
What is batch processing 2,
What are two characteristics of b...
10
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Load Balancer Vs. API Gateway
How are load balancers and api ga...,
What s the purpose of a load bala...,
At a high level how does a load b...
9
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Direct Service Exposure vs. API Gateway
What is an api gateway 1,
What are the three primary charac...,
What are two potential cons of an...
8
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Proxy vs. Reverse Proxy
What is the purpose of a forward ...,
What three functions do forward p...,
What scenario might a warrant a f...
7
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API Gateway vs. Reverse Proxy
What do api gateways and reverse ...,
What s the purpose of an api gate...,
What are a few primary characteri...
9
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Primary-Replica vs. Peer-to-Peer
What are two popular strategies f...,
How would you describe the flow o...,
What are the pros of primary repl...
9
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SQL vs. NoSQL
What are sql databases 1,
How do sql databases work 2,
What are some key features of sql...
13
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Compression vs. Deduplication
What is data compression what ben...,
What are the two main categories ...,
What are some downsides of using ...
8
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Client-Caching vs. Server-Caching
What are the goals of client and ...,
How does server side caching work 2,
What are some characteristics of ...
8
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REST vs. RPC
What is rest what does it stand f...,
What is rpc what does it stand for 2,
Explain rest at a high level 3
12
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Data Intensive Applications
What are three common models for ...,
What do document and graph databa...
2
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Long Polling vs. Websockets vs. Webhooks
What is polling 1,
What are some of the advantages o...,
What are a few disadvantages of p...
14
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CDN Usage vs. Direct Server Serving
What is a cdn 1,
What are two main purposes or cha...,
What are some pros of cdns what a...
7
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Serverless vs. Traditional Architectures
What is a serverless architecture 1,
What are some common characterist...,
Can you provide an example of an ...
11
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Stateful vs. Stateless Architectures
What is a stateful architecture 1,
What are some characteristics of ...,
What types of applications might ...
10
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Hybrid Cloud Storage vs. All Cloud Storage
What is a hybrid cloud storage so...,
What are some characteristics of ...,
What s a good use case for a hybr...
11
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Token Buckets vs. Leaky Buckets
What is the token bucket algorithm 1,
What are some characteristics of ...,
What s an example that might use ...
10
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Read Heavy vs. Write Heavy
Can you explain what a read heavy...,
What are some of the beneficial s...,
How is caching beneficial in a re...
18
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Core Concepts
What are the stages that you shou...,
What are the three most important...,
In the entities stages of a syste...
8
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System Design Examples
If you are designing bitly or a s...,
For a bitly like system what migh...,
What core entities would exist in...
15
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Misc.
What are some key metrics that yo...,
What are some signs triggers that...,
What are some key metrics that yo...
8
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Key Technologies
When discussing databases in a sy...,
What is a relational database and...,
What s a non relational database ...
5
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