Grokking the System Design Interview
Ask Author
Back to course home

0% completed

Vote For New Content
What is a "block server" shon in the master template?

Ash Outadi

Dec 18, 2024

I can see it has something to do with Video/Images but I don't think it's explained in the course.

I suppose it must be related to "block" in terms of the location of the video in the distributed file storage?

0

0

Comments
Comments
Jace McPherson
Jace McPherson10 months ago

"Block" or "Blob" is the interchangeable term here. S3 on AWS is an example.

Design Gurus
Design Gurus10 months ago

Yes, it is related to distributed file storage. You can break a file into smaller blocks and store them on different servers. You can read more at [https://www.designgurus.io/answers/detail/what-is-file-storage-vs-block-storage-vs-object-storage](https://www.designgurus...

On this page

System Design Master Template (video)

  1. Domain Name System (DNS)
  1. Load Balancer
  1. API Gateway
  1. CDN
  1. Forward Proxy vs. Reverse Proxy
  1. Caching
  1. Data Partitioning
  1. Database Replication
  1. Distributed Messaging Systems
  1. Microservices
  1. NoSQL Databases
  1. Database Index
  1. Distributed File Systems
  1. Notification System
  1. Full-text Search
  1. Distributed Coordination Services
  1. Heartbeat
  1. Checksum