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Requirements & Capacity

functional requirements non-functional requirements traffic estimation storage estimation bandwidth estimation latency budget availability target read/write ratio

Scaling & Distribution

vertical scaling horizontal scaling load balancing consistent hashing stateless services service discovery partitioning/sharding replication

Caching & Data

cache-aside write-through cache write-back cache cache invalidation database indexing read replicas CQRS event sourcing

Messaging & Async

message queue publish-subscribe dead-letter queue retry with backoff idempotent consumer outbox pattern stream processing saga orchestration

Reliability

health checks circuit breaker bulkhead isolation timeouts rate limiting graceful degradation multi-region failover disaster recovery RPO/RTO

Interfaces & Observability

API gateway service-to-service authentication distributed tracing structured logging metrics and SLOs correlation IDs backpressure schema evolution

System Design / Requirements & Capacity

bandwidth estimation

Learn bandwidth estimation in System Design with a dedicated explanation, a concept-specific example, practical cautions, and a mastery check.

12 min read • Beginner

system-design-005.yaml

yaml

peak_rps: 2500
avg_response_bytes: 18000
outbound_mbps: 360

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Content source & attribution

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Lesson quizzes

bandwidth estimation Mastery Check →

storage estimation