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Distributed Systems Deep Dive

Trace one large system through delivery semantics, partitioning, storage tiers, query fan-out, and recovery.

5 STEPS95 MINUTESDEVICE-LOCAL PROGRESS
  1. 01
    read20 min

    Delivery semantics and acknowledgement

    Follow an event from local spool to replicated Kafka and an idempotent search index.

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  2. 02
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    Partitioning and ordering

    Balance tenant isolation, source order, hot partitions, and horizontal scale.

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  3. 03
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    Hot, warm, and cold storage

    Separate the durable archive from a rebuildable interactive search index.

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  4. 04
    read15 min

    Streaming features without search polling

    See how live tail and alerting reuse the event stream rather than overload OpenSearch.

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  5. 05
    lab25 min

    Model the logging workload

    Explore partition count, daily volume, storage choice, and regional replication.

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