System Design and Scalability

关键概念：

• Horizontal vs Vertical scaling
• Load balancer
• Database denormalization and No SQL
• Database partitioning(Sharding)
• Caching
• Asynchronous Processing & Queue
• Network metrics
  • Bandwith
  • Throughput
  • Latency
• MapReduce

Considerations:

• Failures
• Avaliability and Reliability
• Read-heavy vs write-heavy
• Security