System Design Tradeoffs

System Design Tradeoffs Scaling Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling Scalability vs Performance Consistency & Availability Consistency vs Availability (CAP) Strong vs Eventual Consistency ACID vs BASE Data & Storage SQL vs NoSQL Normalization vs Denormalization Read-Through vs Write-Through Cache Communication & Processing Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication Batch vs Stream Processing Long Polling vs WebSockets vs SSE Push vs Pull Architecture REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC REST vs RPC Arch