News Feed - Use a fan-out / fan-in strategy for feed updates to enhance availability (1)
- Read-Your-Writes Consistency (1, 2)
- Maintain data replication across servers for consistency(1, 2, 3)
| - Architecture: Event-Driven
- Structure: Microservices
| - Fan-Out / Fan-In Strategy:
- Distribute a new post to all follower feeds (fan-out); aggregate feeds when users log in (fan-in)
- Event Sourcing Pattern:
- Store changes to the news feed as events, ensuring all writes are recorded for user consistency
- Replay events to rebuild user feed state in case of server failure, ensuring data consistency
- Sharding Pattern:
- Shard news feed data by user region to distribute load and reduce latency
- Shard by user activity level, placing more active users on high-performance shards to balance load
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Share - Pregenerate URLs for later use
- Implement caching for frequent redirects to reduce latency (1)
- Apply rate limiting and validation to enhance security(1)
| - Architecture: Request-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Cache-Aside Pattern:
- Cache frequently accessed short URLs to speed up redirect requests
- Evict expired URLs from cache to ensure users are redirected correctly
- Rate Limiting Pattern:
- Limit URL creation requests to prevent abuse and ensure fair usage
- Apply rate limiting on redirects to prevent DDoS attacks on popular URLs
- Publisher-Subscriber Pattern:
- Notify caching systems to evict or preload URLs when new ones are pregenerated
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Location Related - Implement efficient matching algorithms for low latency(1, 2)
- Use GPS data for location tracking
- Use log database to record events to facilitate data traceability
| - Architecture: Event-Driven
- Structure: Microservices
| - Geode Pattern:
- Use geodes to efficiently match riders with nearby drivers for low latency
- Store and index GPS data geospatially for quick location-based queries
- Event Sourcing Pattern:
- Record all ride-related events for full traceability of the system's state
- Use events to reconstruct a trip's state in case of disputes or audits
- Saga Distributed Transactions Pattern:
- Manage complex transactions like booking, payment, and confirmation across services
- Ensure consistency in distributed systems when riders cancel or change routes
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IM - efficient messaging protocols like XMPP (1)
- Ensure data consistency with eventual consistency model
- Encrypt messages for security (1)
| - Architecture: Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Valet Key Pattern:
- Give clients temporary keys to upload/download attachments securely
- Use keys to authenticate WebSocket/XMPP connections for sending/receiving messages
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Live - Optimize for real-time video delivery
- Use scalable cloud services, CDN
- Maintain stream quality with adaptive bitrate streaming using RTMPS and WebRTC (1)
- Thundering herd problem (1)
| - Architecture: Event-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Sharding Pattern:
- Shard video streams across multiple servers for load balancing
- Reduce latency by directing viewers to the nearest shard or CDN endpoint
- Cache-Aside Pattern:
- Cache popular streams and fetch from the origin server if not in cache
- Update cache with the most viewed streams to handle sudden traffic spikes
- Circuit Breaker Pattern:
- Prevent system overloads during peak times by cutting off non-critical operations
- Degrade service if a component fails to maintain overall system function
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Video - Use scalable cloud services like CDN
- Implement adaptive bitrate streaming for dynamic network conditions
- Use redundant systems, failover strategies
- Architect for horizontal scalability
| - Architecture: Request-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Sharding Pattern:
- Distribute video content across multiple servers to balance load
- Serve users from the nearest data shard to reduce latency
- Cache-Aside Pattern:
- Store frequently accessed videos in cache to minimize read latency
- Load data into the cache on demand, ensuring popular content is quickly accessible
- Circuit Breaker Pattern:
- Prevent cascading failures during peak loads by stopping operations to a failing service
- Enable failover mechanisms to redirect traffic if a service or server fails
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File Sync - Implement efficient file transfer protocols like Rsync algorithm (1)
- Use asynchronous and chunked file uploading for efficiency (1)
- Shift to microservices improved latency, resiliency, and resource efficiency(1)
| - Architecture: Event-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Asynchronous Request-Reply Pattern:
- Handle file uploads where the client initiates a request and is free to perform other tasks while waiting for the response
- Process large file downloads in the background
- CQRS Pattern:
- Separate read requests (retrieving file lists) from write requests (uploading files) for optimized performance
- Allow quick access to file metadata while ensuring consistent writes during uploads
- Retry Pattern & Circuit Breaker Pattern:
- Retry file transfers when transient network issues occur
- Open circuit breaker to prevent a failing file transfer service from being overwhelmed
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Search - Implement Inverted Index for efficient keyword matching (1)
- Personalize search results using user history and PageRank/Panda
- Optimize search algorithms for speed and accuracy
| - Architecture: Request-Driven
- Structure: Microservices
| - Sharding Pattern:
- Shard the search index by keyword ranges to distribute the load across servers
- Parallelize web pages across shards to enhance performance and scalability
- Cache-Aside Pattern:
- Cache popular search results and serve them quickly for repeated queries
- Update the cache proactively when frequent keywords are queried to reduce latency
- Publisher-Subscriber Pattern:
- Publish search queries to a topic, with subscribers updating personalized ranking asynchronously
- Use subscribers to trigger index updates when new content is available or changed
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Ranking - Design for scalability to handle complex, multi-dimensional queries
- Develop a caching strategy for frequently accessed filtered results
- Pre-compute rankings to meet specific business timeframes for updates
- Batch multiple update transactions into a single operation to optimize performance (1)
- Employ Lossy Counting and Global Query Buckets for efficient, approximate data aggregation
| - Architecture: Request-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Cache-Aside Pattern:
- Cache top tags or tracks to quickly serve frequent queries without hitting the database
- Sharding Pattern:
- Shard data by tags or music genres to distribute query load and improve scalability
- Allow parallel processing of multi-dimensional queries across different shards
- Fan-Out/Fan-In Strategy:
- Fan-out updates to pre-computed rankings across multiple systems, then fan-in for a global view
- Aggregate data from multiple shards (fan-in) for complex queries to generate final results
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Trading - Implement efficient data streaming services for low-latency market updates
- Ensure reliable trade execution with minimal processing delay
- Integrate timely financial news delivery and custom alerting features
- Facilitate secure and compliant fund transfer mechanisms
| - Architecture: Event-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - CQRS Pattern:
- Separate read queries for financial news delivery from write operations for trade execution
- Streamline command processing to reduce trade execution latency
- Valet Key Pattern:
- Secure fund transfers by providing temporary credentials for transactional operations
- Minimize data access scope using valet keys for third-party financial news integration
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Cooperative editing - Implement operational transformation or CRDTs for low-latency, consistent collaborative editing (1)
- Maintain document consistency with version control and conflict resolution mechanisms (1)
- Design for scalability to handle simultaneous edits by thousands of users
- Optimize for multi-device compatibility, ensuring consistent user experience
| - Architecture: Event-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Event Sourcing Pattern:
- Record each edit as an event, enabling operational transformation for collaborative editing
- Replay events to resolve conflicts and maintain document version history
- Compensating Transaction Pattern:
- Reverse an edit operation when a conflict is detected to maintain consistency
- Apply compensating transactions to handle operational transformation conflicts
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Booking- Employ distributed transactions, possibly with XA protocol, for cross-service operations
- Prevent write skew and phantoms using serializable isolation levels in databases
| - Architecture: Request-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Saga Distributed Transactions Pattern:
- Coordinate event bookings across multiple services without XA protocol overhead
- Handle failures in one service by executing compensating transactions in others
- Event Sourcing Pattern:
- Store state changes as events to prevent write skew in distributed transactions
- Replay events to rebuild system state for serializable isolation level enforcement
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Shopping - Implement elastic search for efficient, scalable product discovery
- Employ event sourcing for reliable order tracking and management
- Secure user accounts with OAuth and multi-factor authentication
- Utilize a microservices architecture to ensure scalability of user and order systems
| - Architecture: Event-Driven
- Structure: Microservices
| - Event Sourcing Pattern:
- Record order events to track status changes
- Enable modifying orders by replaying and adjusting events
- Cache-Aside Pattern:
- Cache product listings and details
- Invalidate cache on product updates to ensure users see current information
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CPU-bound - Serverless architecture to reduce system complexity
- Utilize divide and conquer, map-reduce strategies to break down tasks
- Manage variable workloads with auto-scaling cloud services
| - Architecture: Request-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Fan-Out/Fan-In Strategy:
- Distribute PDF conversion tasks across multiple functions
- Apply video effects in parallel, then merge clips into a final video
- Asynchronous Request-Reply Pattern:
- Queue PDF conversion jobs and notify users asynchronously when done
- Submit video rendering jobs and provide results via callback or webhook
- Health Endpoint Monitoring Pattern:
- Monitor health of serverless functions to ensure availability for video editing
- Track PDF converter service health to scale or redeploy functions
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IoT - Utilize event sourcing to capture and store each user interaction and device event
- Implement efficient data compression / protocol for low-latency synchronization like MQTT
- Employ eventual consistency model for user data synchronization
| - Architecture: Event-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Event Sourcing Pattern:
- Record data as events for historical analysis
- Capture device temperature changes to recreate historical states for troubleshooting
- Publisher-Subscriber Pattern:
- Devices publish sensor data, which apps subscribe to for real-time updates
- Subscribe to user preferences changes to update device behavior dynamically
- Sharding Pattern:
- Shard data by user ID for scalable, distributed data storage
- Use geographical sharding to reduce latency for location-based IoT devices
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Infrastructure - Use partitioning for scalable throughput
- Replicate data for high availability
- Implement consistent hashing for consistency
- Encrypt data at rest for security
| - Architecture: Event-Driven / Request-Driven
- Structure: Monolithic
| - Health Endpoint Monitoring Pattern:
- Monitor the health of nodes, ensuring consistent message processing
- Check object storage service health to detect and resolve access issues
- Event Sourcing Pattern:
- Store every change in system configuration as an event
- Record log generation and access events to reconstruct system states during incidents
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