https://www.chenk.top/en/tags/case-studies/Recent content in Case Studies on Chen Kai BlogHugoenSun, 27 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://www.chenk.top/en/system-design/08-case-studies/Sun, 27 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://www.chenk.top/en/system-design/08-case-studies/<p>The best way to learn system design is to practice it. Reading about individual components — caching, queues, load balancers — builds your vocabulary, but designing a complete system is where you learn to compose those components into something that actually works.</p> <p>This article walks through three classic system design problems end to end. Each follows the framework from the first article in this series: clarify requirements, estimate scale, design the architecture, deep dive into critical components, and identify bottlenecks.</p>