Dive into product architecture from the client’s perspective, design APIs behind apps like YouTube and Stripe, and see how user actions spark backend systems to build standout products.
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Dive into product architecture from the client’s perspective, design APIs behind apps like YouTube and Stripe, and see how user actions spark backend systems to build standout products.
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Course Overview
This course prepares you for product architecture interviews by shifting the focus to the client side—showing how user actions translate into backend interactions. As modern products become increasingly API-driven, product and API architecture have emerged as their own interview track, requiring designers to interpret complex requirements and shape them into coherent, user-centric solutions. You’ll design well-known products like YouTube, Stripe, and Zoom while exploring concepts that consistently appear i...Show More
Course Content
Introduction to the Course
Network Intricacies
Different Ways of Client-Server Communication
Common Data Formats for Web APIs
Comparison of API Architectural Styles
API Design Security
19 Lessons
Important Concepts in Product Architecture - I
20 Lessons
Important Concepts in Product Architecture - II
16 Lessons
Important Concepts in Product Architecture - III
20 Lessons
Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations for Latency
18 Lessons
What Are the Foundational API Designs?
17 Lessons
Design a Search Service
14 Lessons
Design a File Service
12 Lessons
Design a Comment Service
16 Lessons
Design a Pub-Sub Service
18 Lessons
YouTube Streaming API Design
19 Lessons
Facebook Messenger API Design
13 Lessons
Google Maps API Design
18 Lessons
Zoom API Design
17 Lessons
Leetcode API Design
14 Lessons
Payment Gateway API Design—Stripe
15 Lessons
Twitter API Design
13 Lessons
Uber API Design
13 Lessons
CamelCamelCamel API Design
15 Lessons
Gaming API Design
16 Lessons
API Failures and Mitigations
22 Lessons
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