🧱 5 Core Pillars of System Design


✔️ Designing systems is one thing, but mastering the principles that guide their creation is where the real magic happens.


1️⃣ Availability Ensures systems are up and running.
⚠️ Trade-off: Complexity vs. uptime.


2️⃣ Scalability Handles growing loads efficiently.
⚠️ Trade-off: Cost vs. performance.


3️⃣ Reliability Guarantees consistent performance.
⚠️ Trade-off: Redundancy vs. simplicity.


4️⃣ Maintainability Eases updates and debugging.
⚠️ Trade-off: Initial effort vs. long-term gains.


5️⃣ Performance Optimizes speed and responsiveness.
⚠️ Trade-off: Resources vs. user experience.



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📱 How Notion Handles 200 BILLION Notes (Without Crashing)


✔️ In this video, you can see Notion's incredible engineering journey from a single database to an infrastructure that manages over 200 BILLION blocks without breaking a sweat. You can see the following in the video:


1️⃣ How Notion's engineers tackled explosive growth that doubled every 6-12 months

2️⃣ The sharding strategy that transformed performance

3️⃣ Why they built their own custom data lake after outgrowing traditional solutions

4️⃣ The behind-the-scenes story of how they tripled their infrastructure without any downtime


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