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High Level Design
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Learn High Level Design as a connected topic across chapters, concepts, simulations, and interview reasoning.
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Architecture
Distributed Systems
Hld
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Article 1System Design HLD Example: Payment Processing PlatformTLDR: Payment systems optimize for correctness first, then throughput. This guide covers idempotency, double-entry ledgers, and reconciliation.
Stripe processes over 250 million API requests per day,18 minArticle 2System Design HLD Example: Notification Service (Email, SMS, Push)TLDR: A notification platform routes events to per-channel Kafka queues, deduplicates with Redis, and tracks delivery via webhooks — ensuring that critical alerts like password resets never get blocke19 minArticle 3System Design HLD Example: File Storage and Sync (Dropbox and Google Drive)TLDR: Cloud sync systems separate immutable blob storage (S3) from atomic metadata operations (PostgreSQL), using chunk-level deduplication to optimize storage costs and delta-sync events to minimize 18 minArticle 4System Design HLD Example: Distributed Cache PlatformTLDR: Distributed caches trade strict consistency for sub-millisecond read latency, using consistent hashing to scale horizontally without causing database-shattering "cache stampedes" during cluster 15 min