Grokking the System Design Interview, Volume II
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Reminder Alert System: Scalability and Performance

Step 7: Scalability and Performance Strategies

To achieve web-scale performance, we incorporate several strategies and optimizations:

  • Sharding and Partitioning: We shard data and workload by natural keys:

    • Data Sharding: The Schedule table is partitioned by time (and segment) so that no single query or node handles all reminders. User-specific data is partitioned by UserID to distribute load evenly for user lookups. If we used SQL, we might physically partition tables by date or user range

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