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 | Design an online multiplayer card game | [indieflashblog.com](http://www.indieflashblog.com/how-to-create-an-asynchronous-multiplayer-game.html)<br/>[buildnewgames.com](http://buildnewgames.com/real-time-multiplayer/) |
 | Design a garbage collection system | [stuffwithstuff.com](http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-garbage-collector/)<br/>[washington.edu](http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep521/07wi/prj/rick.pdf) |
 | Add a system design question | [Contribute](#contributing) |
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+## Real world architectures
+
+> Articles on how real world systems are designed.
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="http://i.imgur.com/TcUo2fw.png">
+  <br/>
+  <i><a href=https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Twitter-Timeline-Scalability>Source: Twitter timelines at scale</a></i>
+</p>
+
+**Don't focus on nitty gritty details for the following articles, instead:**
+
+* Identify shared principles, common technologies, and patterns within these articles
+* Study what problems are solved by each component, where it works, where it doesn't
+* Review the lessons learned
+
+|Type | System | Reference(s) |
+|---|---|---|
+| Data processing | **MapReduce** - Distributed data processing from Google | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/zh-CN/us/archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf) |
+| Data processing | **Spark** - Distributed data processing from Databricks | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/AGrishchenko/apache-spark-architecture) |
+| Data processing | **Storm** - Distributed data processing from Twitter | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/previa/storm-16094009) |
+| | | |
+| Data store | **Bigtable** - Distributed column-oriented database from Google | [harvard.edu](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/chang06bigtable.pdf) |
+| Data store | **HBase** - Open source implementation of Bigtable | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/alexbaranau/intro-to-hbase) |
+| Data store | **Cassandra** - Distributed column-oriented database from Facebook | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/planetcassandra/cassandra-introduction-features-30103666)
+| Data store | **DynamoDB** - Document-oriented database from Amazon | [harvard.edu](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/decandia07dynamo.pdf) |
+| Data store | **MongoDB** - Document-oriented database | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/mdirolf/introduction-to-mongodb) |
+| Data store | **Spanner** - Globally-distributed database from Google | [research.google.com](http://research.google.com/archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf) |
+| Data store | **Memcached** - Distributed memory caching system | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/oemebamo/introduction-to-memcached) |
+| Data store | **Redis** - Distributed memory caching system with persistence and value types | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/dvirsky/introduction-to-redis) |
+| | | |
+| File system | **Google File System (GFS)** - Distributed file system | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/zh-CN/us/archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf) |
+| File system | **Hadoop File System (HDFS)** - Open source implementation of GFS | [apache.org](https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/hdfs_design.html) |
+| | | |
+| Misc | **Chubby** - Lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems from Google | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf) |
+| Misc | **Dapper** - Distributed systems tracing infrastructure | [research.google.com](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/36356.pdf)
+| Misc | **Kafka** - Pub/sub message queue from LinkedIn | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/mumrah/kafka-talk-tri-hug) |
+| Misc | **Zookeeper** - Centralized infrastructure and services enabling synchronization | [slideshare.net](http://www.slideshare.net/sauravhaloi/introduction-to-apache-zookeeper) |
+| | Add an architecture | [Contribute](#contributing) |