Designing Distributed Systems: 6 Backend Best Practices
Minimize dependencies, monitor perf & use std comm protos for backend design in distributed systems. Define structured design process & submit review before coding. Simplify communication between components.
Most modern software systems are distributed systems. Nowadays they are a must for various reasons. For example: (a) data, requests volume, or both are frequently too large to be handled by a single machine, (b) products are often deployed in multiple locations, and (c) all services need to be scalable (just think of how 'impactful' a simple Google search can be: it could touch at least 50+ separate services and thousands of machines!). Designing a distributed system, however, isn't easy. There are so many areas to master: communication, security, reliability, concurrency, and so many more...