Ask HN: System Design Resources espcially for unusual system design?
I am looking for something to help with generic system design and building a base for questions especially outside of the usual system design that focuses on web apps.
I was once asked a system design question for designing a sports book betting model. I had to come up with a model that calculated odds for many games / parleys.
There was nothing about load balances, end users, APIs, or DB choices.
Every time I look online I see resources that seem to almost entirely focus on system design for full-stack web and mobile apps. Everything is about load balancers/APIs/latency/replicating data...nothing about how someone might design any other piece of software.
Any run into this and have recommendations? Load balancing / APIs / latency / replicating data is usually handled at OS level (drivers, 'database as an os', traditional 'os', 'caching', memory,hard drive, network load balancing ) Programming languate data structure level detail : "Database Internals, A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work" by Alex Petrov This is pretty interesting: The Architecture of Open Source Applications
https://aosabook.org/en/