A VISUAL LIBRARY · v1.0
System design, drawn instead of described.
Twelve animated diagrams across four chapters. Built for engineers who already know the words and want to see the moving parts.
CONTENTS
Four chapters.
01 /04
read âScalability Fundamentals
Serve a million requests without breaking a sweat. Load balancers, caching tiers, CDNs, and the latency budgets that hold them together.
Load BalancingCaching LayersCDN & Edge
02 /04
read âDatabases at Scale
Where state lives, fails, and recovers. Replication topologies, sharding strategies, indexing trade-offs, and consistency dials.
ReplicationShardingIndexes & Trade-offs
03 /04
read âDistributed Systems
Coordinating services that fail independently. Microservices boundaries, async messaging, consensus, and the CAP theorem in practice.
Message QueuesCAP TheoremConsensus
04 /04
read âAPIs & Security
The thin edge between your service and the world. API gateways, JWT vs sessions, rate limiting algorithms, and zero-trust boundaries.
API GatewayAuth TokensRate Limiting