Distributed Systems Reliability — System Design Roadmap
Techniques that keep distributed systems correct and available under failure
Steps in Distributed Systems Reliability
- Idempotency — advanced · Designing operations that are safe to retry without unintended side effects
- Rate Limiting Algorithms — advanced · Token bucket, leaky bucket and sliding window rate limiting strategies
- Heartbeats & Failure Detection — advanced · How distributed systems detect that a node has failed
- Distributed Locks — advanced · Coordinating exclusive access to a resource across multiple machines
- Chaos Engineering — advanced · Deliberately injecting failures to test a system's resilience before it breaks in production
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- System Design roadmap — the full learning path