Understand these points before system design interview👇 1) Understand the Goal → Know what you’re building, for whom, and why. 2) Traffic Pattern → Identify if it’s read-heavy or write-heavy to bias design. 3) Consistency vs Availability → Decide if correctness or availability matters more. 4) Latency Requirements → Define if responses must be real-time or can be async. 5) Expected Scale → Plan for future growth; design to handle 10x users. 6) Access Patterns → Optimize based on how often and what kind of data is accessed. 7) Data Growth & Partitioning → Pre-plan sharding and compression for large datasets. 8) Failure Handling → Use retries, fallbacks, and circuit breakers for graceful recovery. 9) Security & Auth → Add OAuth, JWTs, and rate limiting as needed. 10) Do You Need to Build It All? → Offload non-core features to SaaS/APIs. Repost 👇
@theskilledcoder Good points. Prioritizing and balancing these competing concerns is key for a successful design. What trade-offs are acceptable?
