System Design · sector

Cloud & infrastructure

The storage, databases and schedulers everything else runs on.

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Cloudflare's system design

Every city announces the same addresses and every server runs every service, while a small control plane pushes settings to all of them in seconds through Quicksilver — the speed that defends the network, and the speed that took it down in 2019 and 2025.

Intermediate2 chapters · ~9 min

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Amazon S3
Google GFS · MapReduce · Bigtable
Akamai
Amazon DynamoDB
Google Borg
AWS Lambda
Apple iCloud (CloudKit)
Google Spanner