System Design — Study Path Agent

Chapter 1

Requirements and Trade-offs

1

Non-functional Requirements

2

Trade-offs and Decision Matrix

3

Stakeholder Interviews and Requirements Elicitation

Chapter 2

Capacity Planning

4

Autoscaling and Capacity Elasticity

5

Load Forecasting and Reservation

6

Capacity Planning Fundamentals

Chapter 3

Architectural Styles

7

Monolithic vs Microservices

8

Event-driven and Async Architectures

9

REST vs gRPC

Chapter 4

Data Layer and Storage

10

SQL vs NoSQL

11

Caching Strategies

12

Data Modeling for Services

Chapter 5

Communication and Integration

13

HTTP and RPC Protocols

14

Messaging Systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)

15

API Gateways and Service Mesh

Chapter 6

Reliability and Operability

16

Observability: Logging, Metrics, Traces

17

Fault Tolerance and Resilience

18

Disaster Recovery and Backups

19

Incident Response and SRE Basics