--- title: Top 50 System Design Terminologies You Must Know | daily.dev description: Master key system design terminologies essential for acing interviews with practical examples and additional learning resources. Concepts covered include... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/top-50-system-design-terminologies-you-must-know-r1zhrutxr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Top 50 System Design Terminologies You Must Know | daily.dev og:description: Master key system design terminologies essential for acing interviews with practical examples and additional learning resources. 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Concepts covered include scalability, load balancing, microservices, CAP theorem, sharding, latency, throughput, and many more crucial for building efficient and scalable systems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@quangpao** · 7 upvotes > Sadly, I can't read this great article, this was blocked in my country 🥲 **@unpopularpopular** · 1 upvotes > Read through the article, it was a very good explanation of the different system terminologies especially if you need a refresher on some things. Definitely have it saved! **@botato300** · 1 upvotes > very interesting! **@baderidris** · 1 upvotes > It's worthy **@marcuslecount** · 1 upvotes > A good high level overview with links to more in depth information. 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A good refresher pre interview :)","datePublished":"2024-10-01T23:43:28.848Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/r1ZHRUTxR#c-amNZRnuuS","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marcus Le Count","url":"https://daily.dev/marcuslecount","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--4WL9A4kR--/f_auto/v1727744716/avatars/avatar_Kw6gjnBUB8rZf2o3jwayI"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```