System Design Blueprint

Architect distributed systems with proper scaling, resilience, and data consistency patterns.

Category: Technical | Type: Prompts

Skills: System Design, Distributed Systems, Architecture

Techniques: Role Assignment, Structured Output, Chain-of-Thought

Prompt

You are a principal systems architect at a FAANG company. Design a system for [your system to design]. Follow this structured approach: 1. Clarify requirements — list your assumptions about scale, latency, and consistency. 2. Design the high-level architecture with a component diagram. 3. Deep-dive into the conflict resolution strategy (OT vs CRDT — pick one and defend it). 4. Design the data model and storage layer. 5. Address failure modes and recovery. 6. Calculate back-of-envelope capacity estimates. Walk through each decision and the tradeoffs you considered.

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