System Design Animations

Distributed systems, networking, databases, caching, scaling, and real-world architectures.

Networking

13

Client Server Architecture

Proxy Vs Reverse Proxy

Subnetting & CIDR

TCP Congestion Control

Scaling

6

Horizontal Scaling

Latency vs Throughput vs Bandwidth

Vertical Scaling

Load Balancing

10

L4 vs L7 Load Balancer

Lb Least Connections

Lb Least Response Time

Lb Locality Aware

Lb Power Of Two Choices

Lb Weighted Round Robin

APIs & Protocols

8

Server-Sent Events

Caching

16

Distributed Cache

Databases

9

Document Database

Relational Database

Time Series Database (TSDB)

Vector Database

Wide Column Store

Database Internals

14

Consistent Hashing

Connection Pooling

Full Text Search

Isolation Levels

Lock Granularity

Optimistic vs Pessimistic Locking

Two-Phase Locking (2PL)

Write Ahead Log

Storage & CDN

7

Object vs Block vs File Storage

Storage Tiering

Probabilistic Structures

3

Count Min Sketch

Replication & Consistency

9

Database Replication

Consistency Models

Operational Transformation

Replication Topologies

Consensus & Coordination

9

Distributed Lock

Leader Election

Three Phase Commit

Two Phase Commit

Messaging & Streaming

7

Messaging Queue

Dead Letter Queue

Delivery Semantics

Data Engineering

7

Change Data Capture

Kappa Architecture

Lambda Architecture

Microservices & Patterns

12

Service Discovery

Sync vs Async Communication

Backend for Frontend (BFF)

Choreography vs Orchestration

Monolith to Microservices

Sidecar Pattern

Strangler Fig Migration

Resilience

7

Circuit Breaker

Idempotency Keys

Bulkhead Isolation

Hedged Requests

Timeouts, Retries & Backoff

Rate Limiting

7

Rl Fixed Window

Rl Leaky Bucket

Rl Sliding Window Counter

Rl Sliding Window Log

Rl Token Bucket

Security & Auth

4

Password Hashing

Observability

3

Distributed Tracing

Logging Framework

Deployment & Infra

7

Blue Green Deployments

Canary Deployment

Feature Flags & % Rollout

Rolling Deployments

Object-Oriented Design

18

Calendar System

Inventory Management

Library Management

Meeting Scheduler

Restaurant Management

Task Management

Traffic Control

Vending Machine

Games

4

Snake And Ladder

Real-World Systems

44

Other

1

Single Point Of Failure