Session 5: System Design For Product Managers by Venkatesh Gupta

📌 What we covered today in System Design for PMs 🚀 🔹 What is system design? 👉 The process of designing scalable, reliable, and efficient software architecture. 🔹 Why should PMs know system design? 👉 Helps in collaborating with engineers, making better product decisions, and scaling products. 🔹 Famous system architecture patterns 👉 Monolith, Microservices, Serverless—each with different use cases. 🔹 Pros & cons of Monolith 🏛️ 👉 Simple to develop but hard to scale as the codebase grows. 🔹 Pros & cons of Microservices 🏗️ 👉 Scalable and flexible but complex to manage and deploy. 🔹 Why did Airbnb move from Monolith to Microservices? 👉 To improve scalability, speed, and independent service development. 🔹 What is Serverless architecture? ☁️ 👉 No need to manage servers; AWS Lambda is a popular example. 🔹 What is Event-Driven Architecture? 🔄 👉 Systems react to real-time events, like Uber’s ride-matching system. 🔹 System scaling principles 📈 👉 Horizontal vs. Vertical scaling, Load Balancers to distribute traffic. 🔹 What is Horizontal/Vertical scaling? 🖥️ 👉 Horizontal adds more servers, vertical upgrades existing ones. 🔹 What is a Load Balancer? ⚖️ 👉 Distributes traffic across servers to prevent overload and ensure reliability. 🔥 System design is crucial for PMs to build scalable & resilient products!