This chapter introduces system design and the course, its structure, and prerequisites to set the foundation for mastering system design interviews.
2.
System Design Interviews
4 Lessons
This chapter covers what system design interviews entail, provides preparation techniques and tips, and evaluates your understanding using AI.
This chapter emphasizes abstractions in distributed systems, focusing on network abstractions, consistency models, and failure models crucial for system design.
4.
Non-functional System Characteristics
6 Lessons
This chapter focuses on key non-functional characteristics like availability, reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance in system design.
5.
Back-of-the-envelope Calculations
2 Lessons
In this chapter, you’ll learn to estimate resource needs and response times using back-of-the-envelope calculations for system design.
This chapter introduces the building blocks essential for modern system design, forming the foundation for scalable applications later in the course.
7.
Domain Name System
2 Lessons
This chapter teaches how DNS works and expands on its role in system design, including detailed insights into its design and functionality.
This chapter covers load balancers, their placement, and algorithms. It explores local/global load balancers and tiers of load balancers.
This chapter introduces databases and their types, data replication, partitioning, and trade-offs, essential for designing distributed systems.
This chapter teaches you how to design a scalable key-value store, focusing on replication, versioning, and fault tolerance.
11.
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
7 Lessons
In this chapter, you’ll cover CDN design, content caching strategies, consistency, and techniques for efficient content delivery.
This chapter teaches you how to design a sequencer for generating unique IDs, with a focus on causality and consistency in distributed systems.
13.
Distributed Monitoring
3 Lessons
This chapter focuses on the basics of a distributed monitoring system, its types, and metrics for effective monitoring.
14.
Monitor Server-side Errors
3 Lessons
In this chapter, you'll learn how to design a monitoring system and visualize it for tracking server-side errors in real-time.
15.
Monitor Client-side Errors
2 Lessons
This chapter teaches you how to design a system to monitor client-side errors, ensuring robust and reliable applications.
16.
Distributed Cache
6 Lessons
This chapter teaches the design of a distributed cache, focusing on high-level and detailed designs, as well as evaluating its performance.
17.
Distributed Messaging Queue
7 Lessons
This chapter covers the design of a distributed messaging queue, addressing requirements, design considerations, and performance evaluations.
This chapter teaches the design of a pub-sub system, focusing on how to implement and optimize this communication pattern in distributed systems.
This chapter covers the design of a rate limiter, covering essential algorithms and considerations for managing traffic and ensuring system stability.
This chapter teaches you how to design a blob store, focusing on scalability, storage, and performance evaluation.
21.
Distributed Search
6 Lessons
This chapter teaches distributed search design in steps, with a special focus on indexing, scaling, and replication.
22.
Distributed Logging
3 Lessons
This chapter teaches the importance and design of a distributed logging service, emphasizing on capturing and analyzing logs across distributed systems.
23.
Distributed Task Scheduler
5 Lessons
This chapter covers the design of a Task scheduler addressing issues like prioritizing, task idempotency, queuing, and resource capacity optimization.
24.
Sharded Counters
4 Lessons
This chapter introduces sharded counters and their importance, starting from high-level design and then pivoting to its detailed system design.
25.
Concluding the Building Blocks Discussion
4 Lessons
This chapter wraps up the discussion on building blocks, evaluates you using AI, and introduces the RESHADED approach to tackle unseen system design problems.
This chapter teaches YouTube system design starting with requirements, high and detailed design, evaluation of the design, and handling real-world complexities.
This chapter teaches the system design of Quora incrementally by starting with key requirements and challenges in building a scalable Q&A platform.
28.
Design Google Maps
6 Lessons
This chapter covers the system design of Google Maps, focusing on API design, scalability, finding optimal routes, and ETA computation.
29.
Design a Proximity Service / Yelp
5 Lessons
This chapter is about the system design of a proximity service like Yelp addressing requirements like searching, scaling, and dynamic segments.
This chapter teaches you how to design Uber, address requirements for ride-sharing platforms, detailed design, and fraud detection.
This chapter teaches Twitter system design, covering aspects like user interaction, API design, caching, storage, and client-side load balancing.
32.
Design Newsfeed System
4 Lessons
This chapter teaches Newsfeed system design, covering aspects like functional/non-functional requirements, storage schemas, Newsfeed generation, and publishing.
33.
Design Instagram
5 Lessons
This chapter is about designing Instagram. It covers API design, storage schema, and timeline generation using pull, push, and hybrid approaches.
34.
Design a URL Shortening Service / TinyURL
6 Lessons
This chapter teaches the system design of a URL shortening service like TinyURL with emphasis on requirements like encoding, scalability, and high readability.
35.
Design a Web Crawler
5 Lessons
This chapter is about the system design of a web crawler. Its key components include a crawler, scheduler, HTML fetcher, storage, and crawling traps handler.
In this chapter, you'll learn WhatsApp system design with an emphasis on its API design, high security, and low latency of client-server messages.
37.
Design Typeahead Suggestion
7 Lessons
This chapter teaches the Typeahead suggestion system design, covering aspects like efficient data structure and assembler for updating suggestions.
38.
Design a Collaborative Document Editing Service / Google Docs
5 Lessons
This chapter covers the system design of Google Docs, addressing storage, collaborative editing, and handling concurrency issues using different techniques.
39.
Spectacular Failures
4 Lessons
This chapter teaches you how to avoid failures and outages by discussing case studies of real-world, large-scale distributed systems like Facebook, AWS, etc.
40.
Concluding Remarks
1 Lesson
This chapter discusses key takeaways, highlights unique aspects of each design problem, and gives pointers on the next step to master system design.