Systems Design #
Systems design for DevOps focuses on building platforms that are scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-aware.
Key topics #
- Microservices architecture: boundaries, APIs, and service communication
- Distributed systems trade-offs: CAP, consistency models, and failure domains
- Scalability patterns: horizontal scaling, caching, queueing, and autoscaling
- Resilience engineering: retries, circuit breakers, failover, and chaos testing
- Data architecture: storage choices, partitioning, and replication strategy
Recommended articles #
Practical scenarios to practice #
- Design a high-throughput API platform with global traffic
- Design a streaming analytics pipeline with strict latency SLOs
- Design multi-region failover for mission-critical workloads