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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.

sharded-counters

This skill should be used when the user needs a "sharded counter", "distributed counter", to "count likes / views at scale", handles a "high-write counter" or "hot counter contention", asks about "approximate counting", "real-time counts", or "HyperLogLog". It gives the recipe for absorbing write-heavy counting without a single hot row. Use it whenever one row/key takes concurrent increments faster than it can serialize them, even if the user doesn't say "sharded counter".

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