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INTERACTIVE COURSE

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

1

Prologue

1 Lesson

2

File Systems

1 Lesson

3

Google File System (GFS)

11 Lessons

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4

Google Colossus File System

3 Lessons

5

Facebook's Tectonic File System

8 Lessons

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6

Databases

1 Lesson

7

Google Bigtable

7 Lessons

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8

Google Megastore

6 Lessons

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9

Google Spanner

9 Lessons

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10

Key-value Stores

1 Lesson

11

Many-core Key-value Store

5 Lessons

12

Scaling Memcache

7 Lessons

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13

SILT

12 Lessons

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14

Amazon DynamoDB

8 Lessons

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15

Concurrency Management

1 Lesson

16

Two-phase Locking (2PL)

3 Lessons

17

Google Chubby Locking Service

8 Lessons

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18

ZooKeeper

5 Lessons

19

Big Data Processing: Batch to Stream Processing

1 Lesson

20

MapReduce

8 Lessons

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21

Spark

10 Lessons

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22

Kafka

8 Lessons

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23

Epilogue

1 Lesson

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How You'll Learn

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Progress You Can Show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Hands-on Coding Environments

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.

2x Faster Than Videos

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.

No Set-up Required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress You Can Show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

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