From Google’s Search results page to Amazon’s one-click checkout, modern products hinge on fault-tolerant systems that delight users while meeting hard business targets. That’s why leading MAANG companies reserve a dedicated 45-60 minute session for System Design.
You might be asked to sketch an experiment-ready notifications platform, size a real-time pricing engine, or reason through a privacy-friendly data pipeline. Interviewers probe how you translate user goals into technical requirements, quantify success with clear metrics, and guide cross-functional teams through trade-offs under real constraints.
This adaptive roadmap mirrors hiring-manager expectations and their associated questions. You’ll master distributed-systems fundamentals, then tackle PM-specific challenges including metrics design, prioritization frameworks, and stakeholder alignment.
From Google’s Search results page to Amazon’s one-click checkout, modern products hinge on fault-tolerant systems that delight u...Show More
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
A product-centric playbook for any System Design interview — clarifying requirements, defining tamper-proof metrics, debating trade-offs, and validating solutions.
User-journey mapping techniques that link front-end flows to backend services, ensuring you articulate the why before the how.
Metric-driven sizing skills that convert DAUs, latency SLOs, and cost ceilings into ball-park capacity estimates engineers trust.
Prioritization and roadmap tactics that balance speed, scope, and risk, using frameworks such as RICE, plus one-way- versus two-way-door decisions.
Failure-mode analysis and rollback strategies that keep KPIs healthy even when things break.
Stakeholder-friendly artifacts like swim-lane diagrams, OKR ladders, and phased rollout plans — that prove you can lead without authority.
A product-centric playbook for any System Design interview — clarifying requirements, defining tamper-proof metrics, debating trade-offs, and validating solutions.
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Content
3.
Prelimenary System Design Concepts
4 Lessons
4.
Non-Functional System Characteristics
7 Lessons
5.
Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations
2 Lessons
7.
Domain Name System
2 Lessons
8.
Load Balancers
3 Lessons
9.
Databases
5 Lessons
10.
Key-Value Store
5 Lessons
11.
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
7 Lessons
12.
Sequencer
3 Lessons
13.
Distributed Monitoring
3 Lessons
14.
Monitor Server-Side Errors
3 Lessons
15.
Monitor Client-Side Errors
2 Lessons
16.
Distributed Cache
6 Lessons
17.
Distributed Messaging Queue
7 Lessons
18.
Pub-Sub
3 Lessons
19.
Rate Limiter
5 Lessons
20.
Blob Store
6 Lessons
21.
Distributed Search
6 Lessons
22.
Distributed Logging
3 Lessons
23.
Distributed Task Scheduler
5 Lessons
24.
Sharded Counters
4 Lessons
25.
Concluding the Building Blocks Discussion
4 Lessons
26.
Design YouTube
6 Lessons
27.
Design Quora
5 Lessons
28.
Design Google Maps
6 Lessons
29.
Design a Proximity Service/Yelp
5 Lessons
30.
Design Uber
7 Lessons
31.
Design Twitter
6 Lessons
33.
Design Instagram
5 Lessons
36.
Design WhatsApp
6 Lessons
37.
Design Typeahead Suggestion
7 Lessons
38.
Design a Collaborative Document Editing Service/Google Docs
5 Lessons
39.
Design a Deployment System
2 Lessons
40.
Design a Payment System
2 Lessons
41.
Design a ChatGPT System
2 Lessons
42.
Spectacular Failures
4 Lessons
43.
Concluding Remarks
2 Lessons
44.
Free System Design Lessons
14 Lessons
45.
System Design Case Studies
5 Lessons
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