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Large-Scale Systems

Cloudadorn Academy

Large-Scale Systems follows one four-tier system, browser to web app to business app to database, from a single server to a global fleet. Forty-six episodes, one idea each: replication, sharding, load balancing, the laws that cap concurrency, caching, failure and the nines, security end to end, deployment from hand-built boxes to Kubernetes, the products that implement all of it, and the foundations that tie it together. Every pattern is named with the trade it actually costs. Two hosts, no slides,

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15:48

S1E46. Stream Processing

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

Finite questions of infinite data. Four kinds of window, three clocks that disagree, what to do with the event that arrives late, and the two-layer architecture that answers fast and corrects later.

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16:03

S1E45. Event-Driven Architecture

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

Events as facts that already happened, the log as the truth, reads split from writes. Event sourcing, CQRS, materialized views, and the two things people confuse with them.

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16:23

S1E44. CAP and Consistency

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

Partitions are not optional, so the real choice is who waits when the line is cut. What the theorem actually says, two kinds of consistency that share a word, and the dial the whole season was quietly turning.

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15:23

S1E43. API Design

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

The contract between services. Functions over a wire versus resources over verbs, what a good contract promises, and the single front door that does everything except business logic.

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15:26

S1E42. Quality Attributes

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

Requirements that shape architecture, made measurable. Features versus attributes versus constraints, why several attributes contradict, and the number you promise that you now have to measure forever.

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17:00

S1E41. Big Data and Analytics

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

The tier that collects, stores, searches, and processes what the application cannot. Shippers and sorters, the search index, the distributed file system, map-reduce, and the engine that kept the data in memory.

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16:31

S1E40. NoSQL

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

Four families that made the scale trade explicit. The ring, the tablet, the column family, and the document; what each gives up, and the two decisions that make or break any of them.

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16:43

S1E39. Relational Databases at Scale

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

What the consistency-first store gives up when it grows. The single-node ceiling, the cost hidden inside each strength, reads that scale and writes that do not, and the teams that sharded the relational model instead of leaving it.

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16:14

S1E38. Messaging

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

The brokers. Push versus pull, delete-on-acknowledge versus the retained log, fire-and-forget, the cloud equivalents on three doors, and the one consumer rule at-least-once delivery forces.

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17:08

S1E37. Memcached and Redis

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

The two cache products, chosen by access pattern. Cache-aside, the ring that lets you add a node without losing everything, what one forgets and the other remembers, and why the hard part is never speed.

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16:28

S1E36. CDN and Object Storage

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

The durable origin and the edge cache in front of it. What object storage promises, what the edge serves and what it must fetch, the herd that forms on launch day, and why smaller bytes are a budget line.

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16:04

S1E35. Web Tier

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

The front of the system as products. Threads per request versus the event loop, why Nginx sits in front of Apache, what Node is good and bad at, and where the managed door makes sense.

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15:02

S1E34. Zero-Downtime Deployment

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

Replace the software while the service stays up. Recreate, rolling, canary, blue-green, and the experiment that is not a safety check; flags that separate deploying from releasing; and the database that is always the hard part.

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15:38

S1E33. Kubernetes

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

Declare the fleet you want and a loop makes reality match. Pods, the control plane, and how every feature maps onto a pain the season already met.

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16:46

S1E32. Cloud Deployment

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

The same stack rented by the hour. Mapping every box to a managed service on three clouds, what serverless removes and what it charges, and where to draw the build-versus-buy line.

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16:14

S1E31. VMs vs Containers

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

Virtualize the hardware or virtualize the operating system. Why one boots and the other starts, what each isolates, the layered image that makes containers cheap, and why production runs one inside the other.

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15:42

S1E30. Infrastructure as Code

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

From a hand-built box to a recipe you can run again. The stack from operating system up, provisioning versus configuration, and the three adjectives a good script has to earn.

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15:30

S1E29. Three Dimensions of Deployment

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

Application, infrastructure, operations, planned together. The loop that ships the fleet, the five signals you watch it with, and why the rollback is fast and the fix is slow.

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15:39

S1E28. Data and Application Security

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

Protect the bytes at rest and the request in flight. Encrypting the disk versus encrypting the column, the key that wraps the key, the three classic web attacks and their fixes, and the breaches that walked in through an allowed door.

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15:33

S1E27. Authorization

Large-Scale Systems ·

2026/08/30

What may you do. Roles and the point that enforces them, delegation that is not identity, the two flows that matter, and a signed ticket every service can read and nobody can take back early.

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