Wrapping Up the Building Blocks Discussion
Get an overview of what we have learned and what is yet to be discussed.
We'll cover the following...
We have covered a good number of building blocks that will enable us to solve bigger design problems. In the coming chapters, we’ll solve a variety of problems that will use various building blocks.
Since we’ve already covered the building blocks, we can focus on solving bigger design problems. From this point onwards, we’ll assume that you’re well acquainted with all the discussed building blocks when we use them in our coming design problems.
What’s next?
We’ll learn and explore sixteen design problems in the next chapters. We’ll study the following systems:
Each of these designs is an independent chapter; however, we recommend that you proceed through them in the assigned order. Some problems have background material that is helpful in other design problems. For example, working through the Google Maps problem first can be useful for readers interested in learning about the Uber design problem.
We’ll conclude our course with the “Spectacular Failures” chapter, following some (optional) chapters on additional resources. In the section on spectacular failures, we’ll discuss how a minor bug or mistake led to a significant outage or failure of some of the most successful systems ever designed.