Grokking the Principles and Practices of Advanced System Design
Advanced
125 Lessons
20h
Certificate of Completion
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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
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...Show More
Course Contents
Prologue
1 Lesson
File Systems
1 Lesson
Google File System (GFS)
11 Lessons
Google Colossus File System
3 Lessons
Facebook's Tectonic File System
8 Lessons
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
Epilogue
1 Lesson
How You'll Learn
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You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.
Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.
Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.
Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.
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