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SkillsMP has collected 22 skills from proyecto26/system-design-skills. Open a skill to review its source and details.
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This skill should be used when the user needs to "estimate QPS", "back-of-the-envelope" (BOTEC) numbers, "how much storage / bandwidth", "how many servers", "peak load", "capacity planning", or wants the standard latency / throughput / availability numbers to…
This skill should be used when the user asks about a "caching strategy", "cache invalidation", "what to cache", "read-through vs write-through vs write-back", "cache eviction" (LRU/LFU/TTL), "Redis vs Memcached", "stale reads", or hits "thundering herd",…
This skill should be used when the user asks about the "CAP theorem", "PACELC", a "consistency model", "eventual vs strong consistency", "read-your-writes", "causal consistency", "quorum" or "R+W>N", "consensus", "Raft / Paxos", "leader election", "consistent…
This skill should be used when the user asks about a "CDN", "edge caching", "static asset delivery", "media / video delivery", "geo distribution of content" or "edge POP selection", "push vs pull CDN", "cache-control headers" / "TTL for static assets",…
This skill should be used when the user designs a "message queue", reaches for "Kafka", "RabbitMQ", "SQS", "Kinesis", "pub/sub", or "event-driven" architecture, asks about "async processing", "background jobs", "stream processing", or wrestles with…
This skill should be used when the user asks "monolith vs microservices", how to "split into services", set "service boundaries", find the right "service granularity", design an "API gateway / BFF", do "service discovery" or add a "service mesh", or worries…
This skill should be used when the user asks to "design a system", "design <a product>" (e.g. "design WhatsApp", "design a URL shortener", "design a news feed"), "high-level architecture for…", "how would you architect…", "system design interview", or wants…
This skill should be used when the user needs to "design the API", do "endpoint design", pin down a "request/response shape", choose a "pagination" strategy (cursor vs offset), add an "idempotency key" to a write, plan "API versioning", an "error contract",…
This skill should be used when a system design needs a diagram — "draw the architecture", "diagram this system", "show the components", "make an architecture/infrastructure/topology diagram", or visualizing boxes-and-arrows, data flow, regions, or failure…
This skill should be used when the user wants a "blob store" or "object storage", names "S3" or an S3-compatible store, needs to "store images / video / files", asks about "multipart upload" or "resumable upload", "signed / presigned URLs", "media storage",…
This skill should be used when the user asks "SQL or NoSQL", "which database", how to design a "data model" or "schema design", picks an "indexing" strategy, needs "sharding" or "partitioning", sets up "replication" (leader-follower / multi-leader), defines a…
This skill should be used when the user designs "distributed logging", "log aggregation", "centralized logs", an "ELK" or "EFK" stack, "log shipping", "structured logging", a "correlation ID" or "trace ID" in logs, "log retention", or "high-volume log…
This skill should be used when the user designs a "search system", needs "full-text search", asks about an "inverted index", "Elasticsearch / OpenSearch", "relevance ranking" (TF-IDF/BM25), "search autocomplete / typeahead", an "indexing pipeline", or…
This skill should be used when the user asks about "DNS", "domain resolution", "GeoDNS / geo routing", "latency-based routing", "weighted / failover routing", "Route 53 / Cloud DNS", an "A/CNAME/ALIAS record", "anycast", or "DNS TTL / propagation". It gives…
This skill should be used when the user adds a "load balancer", asks about "L4 vs L7" (transport vs application layer), picks a balancing algorithm ("round robin", "least connections", "weighted", "IP hash"), configures "health checks", needs "sticky…
This skill should be used when the user asks about "observability" or "monitoring", what "metrics, logs, and traces" to collect, "health checks" (liveness/readiness), "alerting" or "on-call", "SLO/SLI" or "error budgets", the "RED" or "USE" method,…
This skill should be used when the user needs to "clarify requirements", separate "functional vs non-functional requirements", "scope the problem", figure out "what questions should I ask", state the "requirements for <X>", or otherwise pin down a vague…
This skill should be used when the user asks about "fault tolerance", "resilience", a "circuit breaker", "graceful degradation", "retry storm" or "thundering herd on recovery", "exponential backoff with jitter", "timeout", "bulkhead", a "single point of…
This skill should be used when the user asks "how does this scale", "scale to millions", "scaling roadmap", "where is the bottleneck", "what breaks first", "10x growth", "vertical vs horizontal scaling", "scale from zero", or "what's the next scale curve". It…
This skill should be used when the user needs a "unique ID generator", "distributed IDs", a "Snowflake ID", asks "UUID vs auto-increment", wants a "time-sortable ID", a "monotonic sequence", a "ticket server", or "ID generation at scale". It gives a menu of…
This skill should be used when the user needs a "sharded counter", "distributed counter", to "count likes / views at scale", handles a "high-write counter" or "hot counter contention", asks about "approximate counting", "real-time counts", or "HyperLogLog".…
This skill should be used when the user designs a "task scheduler", "job scheduler", "job queue", "cron at scale", "distributed cron", "delayed / scheduled / recurring tasks", a "worker pool", reaches for "Celery / Sidekiq / Airflow", or wrestles with "task…