The attached PDF includes about a 100 basic terms and concepts of digital systems design. Alex Wu, author of the ByteByteGo newsletter, explains complex systems with simple terms. Each topic is explained in a different page (or two). This serves as a background to those who want to “listen to the music” of designing advanced digital systems, but also to those who just need a reminder, here and there.
Sample topics are:
- What is IaaS/PaaS/SaaS?
- How does Twitter work?
- Deployment strategies
- How to design a secure web API access for your website?
- DevOps Books
- Why is Redis so Fast?
- SWIFT payment network
- …and many more
