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Part 03 · High Level Design

Back-of-the-Envelope Estimation

EstimationLatency numbersQPSStorage mathSLI/SLO

Back-of-the-envelope maths that decides the design: users to QPS, average vs peak, storage and bandwidth, the latency numbers worth remembering, and what an SLO promises.

⏱ 2-3 hours · Station 20 of 80

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