INTERACTIVE COURSE

Advanced System Design Interview Prep: Crash Course

Advanced

11 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

AI Explanations

AI Mock Interview

AI Feedback

9 Quizzes

5 Code Snippets

156 Illustrations

Takeaway Skills

In-depth knowledge of 9 real-world systems in under 5 hours

An understanding of how to build systems based on principles of modern system design

The ability to evaluate trade-offs to make informed design choices

An understanding of the complexity of real-world systems

Course Overview

This course will help you confidently prepare for advanced system design interview questions—in less than 5 hours. As foundational systems underpin our modern software landscape, the case studies in this course will prepare you with actionable knowledge to design and evaluate any distributed system. This course streamlines system design interview prep by providing you an understanding of real-world distributed systems. You’ll learn about systems from hyperscalers, such as Google File System (GFS) and Amazo...Show More

Course Content

Introduction

Prologue

Design Problems

Design of the Google File System (GFS)Design of Google Colossus (GFS-II)SILT Key-Value Store Amazon DynamoDB Google's Bigtable Two-Phase Locking (2PL)Google’s MapReduce Two-Phase Commit (2PC)State Machine Replication (SMR)

Conclusion

Epilogue

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