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System Design

Design systems that scale — load balancing, caching, sharding, and the CAP trade-off.

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What you'll learn

  • ✦Turn a vague prompt into functional and non-functional requirements
  • ✦Estimate scale with back-of-the-envelope math
  • ✦Compose load balancers, caches, and queues
  • ✦Scale the data layer with replication and sharding
  • ✦Reason about reliability, CAP, and consistency models
  • ✦Protect systems with rate limiting and a CDN

Syllabus

Module 1
Foundations Free
Module 2
Building blocks Locked
Module 3
Scaling the data layer Locked
Module 4
Reliability & consistency Locked
Module 5
Traffic & performance Locked
Module 6
Putting it together Locked