System Design Fundamentals

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DNS Load Balancing and High Availability

The Domain Name System (DNS) plays a critical role in the smooth functioning of the internet, translating human-readable domain names into IP addresses that computers can understand. As the number of users and services on the internet continues to grow, ensuring the performance, reliability, and availability of DNS becomes increasingly important

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The lone Ranger

The lone Ranger

· 2 years ago

Adding highlighter like educative will help alot in highlighting important points.

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tw none

tw none

· 5 months ago

Some of these passages are just fluff with vague points or without detail at all. "Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and their relation to DNS" doesn't really highlight the importance of DNS in relation to CDNs specifically. It's just describing what the DNS already does. "Geographically distributed DNS servers" is another section that just vaguely touches on key benefits.

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Ricardo Franco

Ricardo Franco

· 3 years ago

CDNs help improve the performance, reliability, and security of websites and web services by distributing the load among multiple servers and serving content from the server closest to the user.

How distributing the load among multiple servers can improve the security of websites?

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Abdullah

Abdullah

· a year ago

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