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Grokking Modern System Design Interview for Engineers & Managers
Intermediate
179 Lessons
26h
Certificate of Completion
Takeaway Skills
A modular approach to System Design Interviews to succeed in any technical interview
Designing complex systems using various building blocks in a microservice architecture
The ability to dive deep into project requirements and constraints for any large-scale complex system
Familiarity with the system design interview, possible questions, and how candidates can prepare and perform well on these interviews
An understanding of a highly adaptive framework that can be used by engineers and managers to solve modern system design interview problems
An understanding of how various popular web-scale services are constructed
The ability to solve any novel interview problem with a robust system design approach using this course as a North Star
Course Overview
System Design interviews are now part of every Engineering and Product Management Interview. Interviewers want candidates to exhibit their technical knowledge of core building blocks and the rationale of their design approach. This course presents carefully selected...Show More
Course Content
Introduction
2 Lessons
System Design Interviews
4 Lessons
Abstractions
4 Lessons
Non-functional System Characteristics
6 Lessons
Back-of-the-envelope Calculations
2 Lessons
Building Blocks
1 Lesson
Domain Name System
2 Lessons
Load Balancers
3 Lessons
Databases
5 Lessons
Key-value Store
5 Lessons
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
7 Lessons
Sequencer
3 Lessons
Distributed Monitoring
3 Lessons
Monitor Server-side Errors
3 Lessons
Monitor Client-side Errors
2 Lessons
Distributed Cache
6 Lessons
Distributed Messaging Queue
7 Lessons
Pub-sub
3 Lessons
Rate Limiter
5 Lessons
Blob Store
6 Lessons
Distributed Search
6 Lessons
Distributed Logging
3 Lessons
Distributed Task Scheduler
5 Lessons
Sharded Counters
4 Lessons
Concluding the Building Blocks Discussion
4 Lessons
Design YouTube
6 Lessons
Design Quora
5 Lessons
Design Google Maps
6 Lessons
Design a Proximity Service / Yelp
5 Lessons
Design Uber
7 Lessons
Design Twitter
6 Lessons
Design Newsfeed System
4 Lessons
Design Instagram
5 Lessons
Design a URL Shortening Service / TinyURL
6 Lessons
Design a Web Crawler
5 Lessons
Design WhatsApp
6 Lessons
Design Typeahead Suggestion
7 Lessons
Design a Collaborative Document Editing Service / Google Docs
5 Lessons
Spectacular Failures
4 Lessons
Concluding Remarks
1 Lesson
How You'll Learn
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Built-in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.