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Another question that came up in my mind:we calculate the scale of the system in...

Nevil

Apr 26, 2022

Another question that came up in my mind:

we calculate the scale of the system in every example. What's the importance/use of it? Of course it does tell the interviewer that candidate can think in terms of scalability of individual components - like storage, cache etc. ; unless one has designed lots of systems and knows benchmarks around such numbers, this wont help much? Thoughts?

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Arslan Ahmad
Arslan Ahmad3 years ago

Estimations, overall help you understand the scale and non-functional requirements of the system being designed.

For example, if we are storing a lot of data, we should consider data partitioning techniques. But if the data the system is storing is small, as is in th...