Dive into a comprehensive two-part conference talk from SREcon19 Asia/Pacific that explores the essential building blocks of distributed systems. Learn about orchestration, load balancing, databases, and storage services through the lens of designing a large data processing pipeline. Engage in an interactive session where John Looney from Facebook discusses crucial concepts, including pipeline and batch systems, failover, lockservers, consensus algorithms, queues, data storage, and database types. Participate in a collaborative design review of a theoretical pipeline system to solidify your understanding of these complex topics. Gain valuable insights into the challenges and solutions in distributed systems architecture, from CAP theorem to cluster filesystems, in this comprehensive 1 hour and 23 minutes presentation.