Distributed Cache System — System Design Interview Practice
Design a distributed caching system like Redis or Memcached that provides fast data access. Work through the requirements, architecture trade-offs, and an interactive design review.
Requirements and concepts to consider
- Store and retrieve key-value pairsRequirement
- Distribute data across multiple nodesRequirement
- Handle node failures gracefullyRequirement
- Support different eviction policies (LRU, LFU, TTL)Requirement
- Provide high availability and consistencyRequirement
- Support different data typesRequirement
- Handle millions of requests per secondRequirement
- cachingConcept to explore
- distributed systemsConcept to explore
- performanceConcept to explore
- memoryConcept to explore
- consistencyConcept to explore