Grokking the System Design Interview, Volume II
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Google News: Scalability and Performance

Step 7: Scalability and Performance Strategies

Designing for web-scale involves applying many techniques to handle high load and ensure reliability. Here we highlight the key strategies and justify our choices:

  • Sharding and Data Partitioning: All our major data is partitioned to spread load:

    • We partition news articles across database nodes (Cassandra automatically partitions by primary key; using article_id or category as part of key ensures distribution). This allows writing many articles per second across the cluster.

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