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System Design Fundamentals
Great systems are built from a small set of ideas applied well. Learn to reason about requirements and trade-offs, then watch load balancers, caches, replicas and queues work together in live models you can push to the breaking point.
What you’ll learn
- Turn vague requirements into measurable latency and availability targets
- Estimate capacity with back-of-the-envelope calculations
- Scale stateless services horizontally behind load balancers
- Apply caching patterns and understand how they fail
- Scale data with replication, sharding and consistent hashing
- Decouple services with queues and design idempotent consumers
Curriculum
Module 1 · Foundations of scale
5 lectures- 01Requirements, trade-offs and estimatesInteractiveFree18 min
- 02Scaling out with load balancers3D modelFree18 min
- 03CachingInteractiveFree18 min
- 04Scaling data: replication and shardingInteractiveFree20 min
- 05Queues and asynchronous processingInteractiveFree19 min
Module 2 · Building blocks
5 lectures- 06Consistency and the CAP theoremIncluded with the course
- 07API design: REST, gRPC and GraphQLIncluded with the course
- 08Rate limitingIncluded with the course
- 09Observability and SLOsIncluded with the course
- 10Monoliths and microservicesIncluded with the course
Module 3 · Case studies
4 lectures- 11Design a URL shortenerIncluded with the course
- 12Design a chat systemIncluded with the course
- 13Design a news feedIncluded with the course
- 14Design a video streaming platformIncluded with the course
Who this course is for
- Mid-level and senior engineers
- Tech leads who run design reviews
- Engineers preparing for architecture interviews
Before you start
Experience building at least one web application or back-end service.
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We can combine System Design Fundamentals with other courses into a learning path built around your team’s roles and goals.