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proyecto26/system-design-skills

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A divide-and-conquer wiki of system-design skills. Reason about a design problem one part at a time -- requirements, capacity, APIs, storage, caching, load balancing, messaging, consistency, resilience, delivery, and scaling -- each with generic recipes, cloud-provider variants (AWS/Azure/GCP/Temporal), explicit trade-offs, and failure-mode analysis. Optimizes for reasoning over memorized architectures.

service-decomposition

This skill should be used when the user asks "monolith vs microservices", how to "split into services", set "service boundaries", find the right "service granularity", design an "API gateway / BFF", do "service discovery" or add a "service mesh", or worries that services are "too chatty" / "too fine-grained" — including when a team is pushed to adopt microservices or Kafka between services "to be ready to scale" and the right answer may be a modular monolith. It gives the recipe for carving a system into services (or deciding not to) and wiring how they find and call each other. Use it whenever a design has more than one service — or someone is tempted to add more — even if the user doesn't say "microservices".

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