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Place the Caches, CDN, and Load Balancers

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/06-place-the-caches-cdn-and-load-balancers-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 Place the Caches, CDN, and Load Balancers as a structured reasoning process involving requirements, constraints, bottlenecks, and tradeoffs instead of disconnected interview heuristics.
  • Use Place the Caches, CDN, and Load Balancers 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: Asynchronism, System Design Primer: Cache overview and levels, System Design Primer: Cache update patterns, System Design Primer: Content delivery network, System Design Primer: Load balancer, System Design Primer: Reverse proxy

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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 Place the Caches, CDN, and Load Balancers, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.