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Everything is a trade-off

System design revolves around navigating trade-offs; optimizing one aspect invariably impacts others. Understanding and articulating these compromises, along with their implications, is critical for building robust and scalable systems.

Trade-offsCost vs. PerformanceReliability vs. ScalabilityConsistency vs. AvailabilityCAP TheoremLatency vs. ThroughputSpace vs. Time ComplexityACID propertiesEventual ConsistencyCaching Strategies

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