System Design Master Template (designing Instagram) with Arslan Ahmad

Hi Everyone,
In this episode I am joined by Arslan Ahmad, Author of the 'Grokking' series, CEO & Co-Founder of DesignGurus.org. We have talked about a System Design Master template that Arslan created to approach system design problems in a systematic way. To explain the master template we have discussed a practical example of an Instagram like application.
We discussed two critical workflows of the app:
1) Posting photo and video
2) News feed generation
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:30 System Design Master Template Overview
12:00 Designing Instagram (Post photos/videos)
38:00 File System vs Object Store
46:45 Fetching a Post and News Feed Design
01:20:00 NoSQL vs SQL database choice
01:30:00 Wrapping up
About Arslan:
Author of ‘Grokking’ series | CEO & Co-founder of DesignGurus.org | Ex-Meta, Microsoft, Hulu
20 years of professional experience in system analysis, architecture, design, development, and maintenance, working as a Team Lead and Software Developer. Successfully drove several development cycles of multiple products.
Specialties:
• Distributed Systems Architecture
• Distributed Storage Systems
• Web Portals
• Service Management Infrastructure
• Scalable System Design
• Algorithm Design and Implementation
• Software Watchdogs and Monitoring
Contact info:
Arslan’s Profile : linkedin.com/in/arslanahmad
Websites: designgurus.org
Medium blog: arslan-ahmad.medium.com
Email: [e-mail]
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The GeekNarrator

[@thecloudbaba8668]

Absolute fruitful discussion, Loved it. looking forward for master Template of Envelope of Estimation :)

[@mirzaahmed8583]

This is was really great discussion, it has motivated me to do more learning on System Design. Thanks both of you.

[@shyamagrawal6006]

Thanks Arslan Ahmad and Kaivalya Apte for great session .. Learned a lot out of it ..
If possible request to have session on LLD which may includes relationship between entities (classes and interfaces) on any problem statement.

[@TheGeekNarrator]

Thanks Shyam. Will see what I can do for LLD