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If you want to become good at system design (not kidding), learn these case studies:
1 How PayPal Was Able to Support 1 Billion Transactions a Day With Only 8 Virtual Machines
2 How WhatsApp Was Able to Support 50 Billion Messages a Day With Only 32 Engineers
3 Gaming Leaderboard Architecture
4 How Google Ads Was Able to Support 4.77 Billion Users With a SQL Database
5 How Amazon S3 Achieves 99.999999999% Durability
6 How Uber Finds Nearby Drivers at 1 Million Requests per Second
7 How Slack Works
8 How to Scale an App to 10 Million Users on AWS
9 Distributed Counter Architecture
10 How YouTube Was Able to Support 2.49 Billion Users With MySQL
11 How Apple Pay Works
12 How URL Shortener Works
13 Redis Use Cases
14 How Stripe Prevents Double Payment Using Idempotent API
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