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System Design Fundamentals

Learn system architecture by watching systems work.

A structured interactive textbook that teaches the mental model behind backend architecture and then applies it to production-style systems.

• 01
  Thinking About Systems

  Learn the basic mental model for reasoning about backend systems.
  Freearticle
• 02
  Load Balancing

  See how a load balancer spreads requests across healthy application instances.
  Freeinteractive
• 03
  CAP Theorem Reference

  A glossary-style reference for consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.
  Freereference
• 04
  Rate Limiter Practice

  Practice designing a service that protects downstream systems from bursty traffic.
  Premiumpractice