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# Useful Reads

* **System Design Introduction By Tushar Roy**
  * <https://youtu.be/UzLMhqg3_Wc>
* **Master Slave:**
  * <https://www.quora.com/What-are-Master-and-Slave-databases-and-how-does-pairing-them-make-web-apps-faster>
* **Real life example of scaling using MySQL:**
  * <https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/sharding-pinterest-how-we-scaled-our-mysql-fleet/>
* **Paxos**
  * <https://tinyurl.com/aboutpaxos>