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SOLID is an acronym for five computer programming principles intended to make software designs more maintainable and avoid refactoring and code rot. SOLID stands for: S: Single-responsibility principle O: Open–closed principle L: Liskov substitution principle I: Interface segregation principle D: Dependency inversion principle.

SOLID Software Design

Netflix supports a wide range of devices ranges from smartphones, smart TVs, PCs, and their different operating systems. It all starts with you pressing that click button and a request to the Netflix servers which are mainly hosted on Amazon Web Services. The request together with multiple other requests is forwarded to Amazon's elastic load balance to route to the traffic different EC2 instances.

How Netflix Works

How WhatsApp Messenger Works! Thenjiwe kubheka explains how the app works. The system is centered around a duplex connection system meaning messages are bidirectional. There are different types of connections namely TCP, UDP, Web Socket. WhatsApp uses MnesiaDB as its database management system, Mnesia is highly favorable for its ability to be reconfigured.

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