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

19

LRU Cache Design

Cache Invalidation

Distributed Cache

Databases

9

Document Database

Relational Database

Time Series Database (TSDB)

Vector Database

Wide Column Store

Database Internals

17

Consistent Hashing

Connection Pooling

Full Text Search

Isolation Levels

Lock Granularity

Memcached Architecture

MySQL Architecture

Optimistic vs Pessimistic Locking

PostgreSQL Architecture

Redis Architecture

Two-Phase Locking (2PL)

Write Ahead Log

Storage & CDN

9

Amazon S3 Architecture

Distributed File Systems

Object vs Block vs File Storage

Storage Tiering

Probabilistic Structures

5

Count Min Sketch

Geospatial Indexing

4

H3 Hexagonal Index

S2 Geospatial Index

Replication & Consistency

10

Database Replication

Consistency Models

Network Partitions

Operational Transformation

Replication Topologies

Consensus & Coordination

10

Distributed Lock

Leader Election

Split Brain Problem

Three Phase Commit

Two Phase Commit

Messaging & Streaming

12

Flink Architecture

Kafka Architecture

Messaging Queue

Spark Architecture

Dead Letter Queue

Delivery Semantics

Data Engineering

9

Change Data Capture

Batch vs Stream Processing

Kappa Architecture

Lambda Architecture

Architecture Styles

6

Hexagonal Architecture (Ports and Adapters)

Monolithic Architecture

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Architecture

Push vs Pull Architecture

Serverless Architecture

Stateful vs Stateless Architecture

Microservices & Patterns

13

Nginx Architecture

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

9

Authentication vs Authorization

Encryption at Rest

Password Hashing

Session vs Token Based Auth

Observability

6

Alerting Pipeline

Dashboards & Runbooks

Distributed Tracing

Log Aggregation

Logging Framework

Deployment & Infra

11

Aws Lambda Architecture

Docker Architecture

Blue Green Deployments

Canary Deployment

Feature Flags & % Rollout

Kubernetes Architecture

Prometheus Architecture

Rolling Deployments

Unique ID Generation

3

Distributed ID Generator

Global Counter (Redis)

Hashing + Encoding

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

10

Database Indexing

Single Point Of Failure

Vertical Partitioning

Zookeeper Architecture

Denormalization

DynamoDB Architecture

Horizontal Partitioning

Materialized Views