Top 50 System Design Terminologies You Must Know

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Master key system design terminologies essential for acing interviews with practical examples and additional learning resources. Concepts covered include scalability, load balancing, microservices, CAP theorem, sharding, latency, throughput, and many more crucial for building efficient and scalable systems.

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Sep 19, 2024•12m read time•From medium.com

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Top 50 System Design Terminologies You Must Know 1. Scalability 2. Load Balancer 3. Microservices 4. CAP Theorem 5. Sharding 6. Latency 7. Throughput 8. Cache 9. Content Delivery Network (CDN)10. REST API 11. GraphQL 12. ACID 13. BASE 14. NoSQL 15. SQL 16. Database Indexing 17. Replication 18. Failover 19. API Gateway 20. Service Mesh 21. Serverless Computing 22. Event-Driven Architecture 23. Monolithic Architecture 24. Distributed Systems 25. Message Queue 26. Pub/Sub Model 27. Data Partitioning 28. Horizontal Scaling 29. Vertical Scaling 30. Rate Limiting 31. Circuit Breaker Pattern 32. Data Consistency 33. Eventual Consistency 34. Strong Consistency 35. Containerization 36. Kubernetes 37. Autoscaling 38. Multi-Tenancy 39. Load Shedding 40. Idempotence 41. Quorum 42. Orchestration 43. Choreography 44. Service Registry 45. API Rate Limiting 46. Data Warehouse 47. Data Lake 48. OLAP 49. OLTP 50. Big Data