System Design Blueprint: The Ultimate Guide

Love Sharma
ByteByteGo System Design Alliance
9 min readApr 20, 2023

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Developing a robust, scalable, and efficient system can be daunting. However, understanding the key concepts and components can make the process more manageable. In this blog post, we’ll explore essential system design components such as DNS, load balancing, API Gateway, and more, along with a concise cheat sheet that can help developers design systems of varying complexity.

System Design Blueprint / Cheatsheet

A comprehensive visual guide that provides developers with a quick and easy reference to key concepts and best practices in system design. This handy cheatsheet or blueprint covers essential topics such as DNS, load balancing, API Gateway, video and image handling, caching, databases, unique ID generation, standard components like payment and recommendation services, and chat and streaming protocols. With this valuable resource at your fingertips, you’ll be well-equipped to tackle the challenges of designing and implementing scalable, efficient, and reliable systems.

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Section 1: Principles of System Design

1.1: Modularization

Dividing the system into smaller, manageable modules helps reduce complexity, improve maintainability, and increase reusability.

1.2: Abstraction

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Love Sharma
ByteByteGo System Design Alliance

Love is an experience cloud engineer with a demonstrated history of building large scale enterprise application.