Advanced
158 Lessons
20h
Certificate of Completion
Takeaway Skills
Working knowledge of building large-scale systems
Ability to evaluate common system design trade-offs
Ability to map interview questions and on-job design tasks to well-known systems
Familiarity with the complexity of real-world systems behind a seemingly simple system
Understanding of large cloud service providers hosted in geographically dispersed data centers
Course Overview
This course teaches you how large, real-world systems are built and operated to meet strict service-level agreements. You’ll learn the many building blocks of a modern system’s design by picking and combining the right pieces and understanding the trade-offs between them. You’ll learn about some great systems from hyperscalers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. This course has hand-picked seminal work in system design that has stood the test of time and is grounded on strong principles. You will learn a...
Course Content
Prologue
File Systems
Google File System (GFS)
Google Colossus File System
Facebook's Tectonic File System
Databases
1 Lesson
Google Bigtable
7 Lessons
Google Megastore
6 Lessons
Google Spanner
9 Lessons
Key-value Stores
1 Lesson
Many-core Key-value Store
5 Lessons
Scaling Memcache
7 Lessons
SILT
12 Lessons
Amazon DynamoDB
8 Lessons
Concurrency Management
1 Lesson
Two-phase Locking (2PL)
3 Lessons
Google Chubby Locking Service
8 Lessons
ZooKeeper
5 Lessons
Big Data Processing: Batch to Stream Processing
1 Lesson
MapReduce
8 Lessons
Spark
10 Lessons
Kafka
8 Lessons
Consensus
1 Lesson
Understanding Consensus: Two Generals, FLP, & Byzantine Generals
4 Lessons
Two-phase Commit
4 Lessons
State Machine Replication
10 Lessons
Paxos
6 Lessons
Raft
8 Lessons
Epilogue
1 Lesson
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