Engineering Atlasby Abhishek Goyal
Course contents

Module 02

Core concepts

The words every design round runs on: scalability, availability, reliability, failure and the CAP theorem, each explained in plain language with the trade-off.

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By the end of this module you can

  • Define each quality attribute with a number
  • Spot single points of failure in a diagram
  • Explain CAP without the usual myths

System qualities

What "good" means for a system, in numbers.

  1. ScalabilityLessonPremiumSoon
  2. AvailabilityLessonPremiumSoon
  3. ReliabilityLessonPremiumSoon
  4. Latency vs throughput vs bandwidthLessonPremiumSoon

Failure and distribution

What breaks, and how systems keep going.

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  2. FailoverLessonPremiumSoon
  3. Fault toleranceLessonPremiumSoon
  4. Consistent hashingLessonPremiumSoon
  5. CAP theoremLessonPremiumSoon