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Choose a Storage Approach

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface​

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/production/semester-08-system-design-leadership/module-01-system-design-methodology/concepts/cluster-02-high-level-design/05-choose-a-storage-approach-primary.md
  • App: production
  • Semester: semester-08-system-design-leadership
  • Module: module-01-system-design-methodology
  • Unit kind: concept
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives​

  • Explain Choose a Storage Approach as a structured reasoning process involving requirements, constraints, bottlenecks, and tradeoffs instead of disconnected interview heuristics.
  • Use Choose a Storage Approach to move from vague system goals to a defendable design with explicit assumptions and failure boundaries.
  • Use fundamentals-of-software-architecture, system-design-primer to connect the learner-facing explanation to capacity planning, architecture sketches, and production-oriented tradeoff analysis.

Prerequisites​

  • Comfort with architecture, databases, networking, and distributed-systems tradeoffs from the earlier semesters.

Source books​

  • fundamentals-of-software-architecture
  • system-design-primer

Source routes​

Fundamentals Of Software Architecture​

System Design Primer​

  • /books/system-design-primer via System Design Primer: CAP theorem, System Design Primer: Consistency patterns, System Design Primer: Database RDBMS replication, System Design Primer: Database federation and sharding, System Design Primer: NoSQL databases, System Design Primer: SQL or NoSQL

Supporting curriculum routes​

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External enrichment​

AI companion modes​

  • Explain simply
  • Socratic tutor
  • Challenge my understanding
  • Diagnose my confusion
  • Connect forward / backward

Source-of-truth note​

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from multiple canonical book routes. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Choose a Storage Approach, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.