Abstractions & Encapsulation
Use stable façades and information hiding to manage complexity, evolve safely, and enforce boundaries
Use stable façades and information hiding to manage complexity, evolve safely, and enforce boundaries
Comprehensive architecture review guide covering quality attributes assessment, risk identification, operational readiness, technology fitness evaluation, and team capability assessment.
Fix common incidents automatically; guide complex incidents with runbooks.
Master BST operations including insert, delete, search, and balancing with O(log n) average complexity.
Basic bit operations, shifting, masking, and common bit manipulation tricks with real-world applications
The core building blocks of systems: components, the connectors between them, and the configurations that shape runtime behavior.
Design dashboards and key performance indicators for operational visibility.
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Prepare for disasters with recovery planning, backups, and restore procedures.
Master binary heap operations including insert, extract, heapify, and sift operations for efficient priority queue implementation.
Master essential linked list operations including traversal, insertion, deletion, reversal, cycle detection, and merging for efficient list manipulation.
Distribute traffic across instances using layer 4 and layer 7 load balancers.
Observability and Operations is covered in Section 12. This brief mentions key concepts and links.
Comprehensive checklist for production readiness including health checks, SLO/SLI definition, alerting thresholds, capacity planning, and runbook documentation.
Measure system performance using RED (for services) and USE (for resources).
Build resilient systems through redundancy and automatic failover.
Capture dynamic behavior, infrastructure, and data flow
Distribute workloads and scale based on demand using container orchestration.
Master set operations including union, intersection, difference, and duplicate detection for efficient data manipulation.
Define and track reliability targets using service-level objectives.
Identify stakeholders, elicit their concerns, and reconcile trade-offs into architecture decisions
Master the fundamentals of systems thinking for software architecture: components, connectors, configurations, interfaces, and abstractions to reason about change, risk, and evolution.