Welcome to the System Design Basics! This guide is your compass in the vast sea of system design. Whether you're working on a project or navigating through software architecture, this repo will be your trusty first mate.
- Dive deep into your project's requirements.
- Chat with stakeholders to iron out any wrinkles in understanding.
- Break down your system into bite-sized components.
- Identify the core functionalities each component will wield.
- Architect your system. Pick an architecture pattern (monolithic, microservices, or others).
- Choose frameworks that work with you, your team and align with the non-funtional requirements (e.g., Java's Spring Boot or PHP's Laravel).
- Blueprint your database.
- Identify the tables, re 679D lationships, and data types.
- Consider database normalization for efficient data storage.
- Define APIs for your services or components to communicate.
- Consider RESTful APIs for your web application.
- Sketch the flow of data and control as they move through your system.
- This is where you use UML diagrams (class diagrams, sequence diagrams, etc).
- Identify potential security threats.
- Design measures for authentication, authorization, and data encryption.
- Consider scalability requirements.
- Design the system to handle growth in users, data, and transactions.
- Plan how the system will handle errors gracefully.
- Implement logging mechanisms for debugging and monitoring.
- Confirm technologies and frameworks.
- Consider what you and your team is already competent with.
- Ensure alignment with the chosen architecture (e.g., Spring Boot, Laravel).
- Develop a comprehensive testing strategy like a mad scientist.
- Include unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing, you can't go wrong with those.
- Document your system's odyssey in detail.
- Provide some resources for devs in your team now and later on.