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All Modules System Design Scaling & Partitioning

Scaling & Partitioning

Statelessness, sharding, consistent hashing, replication, hot spots, and multi-region.

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  1. Vertical, Horizontal & Statelessness

    Scaling up vs out, stateless services, where state lives, and autoscaling signals.

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  2. Sharding Strategies & Shard Keys

    Range, hash, directory, and geo sharding, shard keys, cross-shard queries, and resharding.

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  3. Consistent Hashing & Rebalancing

    Hash rings, virtual nodes, key movement on membership changes, rendezvous hashing, and jump hash.

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  4. Replication Topologies & Lag

    Single-leader, multi-leader, and leaderless replication, sync modes, replication lag, and failover.

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  5. Hot Partitions & The Celebrity Problem

    Hot shards, key salting, celebrity accounts, and detecting hot keys.

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  6. Multi-Region & Geo-Distribution

    Active-passive vs active-active, cross-region latency, data residency, conflict resolution, and traffic steering.

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