What Is This Course About?

Introduction

Dynamo: Introduction

High-Level Architecture

Data Partitioning

Replication

Vector Clocks and Conflicting Data

The Life of Dynamo’s put() & get() Operations

Anti-entropy Through Merkle Trees

Gossip Protocol

Dynamo Characteristics and Criticism

Summary: Dynamo

Quiz: Dynamo

Mock Interview: Dynamo

Dynamo: How to design a key value store?

Cassandra: Introduction

High-level Architecture

Cassandra Consistency Levels

Gossiper

Anatomy of Cassandra's Write Operation

Anatomy of Cassandra's Read Operation

Compaction

Tombstones

Summary: Cassandra

Quiz: Cassandra

Mock Interview: Cassandra

Cassandra: How to Design a Wide-column NoSQL Database?

Messaging Systems: Introduction

Kafka: Introduction

Kafka: Deep Dive

Consumer Groups

Kafka Workflow

Role of ZooKeeper

Controller Broker

Kafka Delivery Semantics

Kafka Characteristics

Summary: Kafka

Quiz: Kafka

Mock Interview: Kafka

Kafka: How to Design a Distributed Messaging System?

Chubby: Introduction

Design Rationale

How Chubby Works

File, Directories, and Handles

Locks, Sequencers, and Lock-delays

Sessions and Events

Master Election and Chubby Events

Caching

Database

Scaling Chubby

Summary: Chubby

Quiz: Chubby

Mock Interview: Chubby

Chubby: How to Design a Distributed Locking Service?

Google File System: Introduction

Single Master and Large Chunk Size

Metadata

Master Operations

Anatomy of a Read Operation

Anatomy of a Write Operation

Anatomy of an Append Operation

GFS Consistency Model and Snapshotting

Fault Tolerance, High Availability, and Data Integrity

Garbage Collection

Criticism on GFS

Summary: GFS

Quiz: GFS

Mock Interview: GFS

GFS: How to Design a Distributed File System Storage?

Hadoop Distributed File System: Introduction

Deep Dive

Data Integrity & Caching

Fault Tolerance

HDFS High Availability (HA)

HDFS Characteristics

Summary: HDFS

Quiz: HDFS

Mock Interview: HDFS

HDFS: How to Design File Storage System?

BigTable: Introduction

BigTable Data Model

System APIs

Partitioning and High-level Architecture

SSTable

GFS and Chubby

Bigtable Components

Working with Tablets

The Life of BigTable's Read & Write Operations

Fault Tolerance and Compaction

BigTable Refinements

BigTable Characteristics

 Summary: BigTable

Quiz: BigTable

Mock Interview: BigTable

BigTable: How to Design a Wide Column Storage System? 

Introduction: System Design Patterns

1. Bloom Filters

2. Consistent Hashing

3. Quorum

4. Leader and Follower

5. Write-ahead Log

6. Segmented Log

7. High-Water Mark

8. Lease

9. Heartbeat

10. Gossip Protocol

11. Phi Accrual Failure Detection

12. Split Brain

13. Fencing

14. Checksum

15. Vector Clocks

16. CAP Theorem

17. PACELC Theorem

18. Hinted Handoff

19. Read Repair

20. Merkle Trees

System Design Patterns

Quiz I

Quiz II

Final Assessment

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Appendix

Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview

Let's learn about split-brain and how to handle it.

## Background

In a distributed environment with a central (or leader) server, if the central server dies, the system must quickly find a substitute, otherwise, the system can quickly deteriorate. 

One of the problems is that we cannot truly know if the leader has stopped for good or has experienced an intermittent failure like a [stop-the-world GC pause](## "During Garbage Collection (GC), a program attempts to reclaim memory occupied by objects that are no longer in use