8 Common System Design Problems and Solutions

Do you know those 8 common problems in large-scale production systems and their solutions? Time to test your skills!!

1. Read-Heavy System

Use caching to make the reads faster.

2. High-Write Traffic

• Use async workers to process the writes

• Use databases powered by LSM-Trees

3. Single Point of Failure

Implement redundancy and failover mechanisms for critical components like databases.

4. High Availability

• Use load balancing to ensure that requests go to healthy server instances.

• Use database replication to improve durability and availability.

5. High Latency

Use a content delivery network to reduce latency.

6. Handling Large Files

Use block storage and object storage to handle large files and complex data.

7. Monitoring and Alerting

Use a centralized logging system using something like the ELK stack.

8. Slower Database Queries

• Use proper indexes to optimize queries.

• Use sharding to scale the database horizontally.