System Design Interview Prep Crash Course - AI-Powered Learning for Developers

Intermediate

33 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

This course preps learners for system design interviews, solving real-world problems and readying them for new ones.

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This course includes

41 Quizzes

16 Code Snippets

400 Illustrations

This course includes

41 Quizzes

16 Code Snippets

400 Illustrations

Course Overview

System design interviews play a vital role in hiring software engineers and managers. These interviews test the ability of the candidate to solve problems under different constraints. A candidate’s performance in a system design interview is a significant factor in deciding the hire/no-hire decisions and the level assigned to the incoming candidate. In this course, you’ll go through a miniature form of our primary course on system design: Grokking Modern System Design Interview for Engineers & Managers. Th...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of system design to get you ready for the interview in less time

Familiarity with a collection of 30 frequently asked design problems and solutions

The ability to pick and choose a problem of your liking and complete it in 15 minutes

An understanding of how various popular web-scale services are constructed

The ability to learn how larger systems use smaller systems as building blocks

Course Content

Introduction

Introduction to the System Design Interview Prep Crash Course Course Structure for System Design Interview Prep Crash Course

Elementary Design Problems

Domain Name System (DNS)Load Balancers Databases in Distributed Systems Design a Key-Value Store Design a Content Delivery Network (CDN)Design a Unique ID Generator Design a Client-Side Monitoring Service Design a Server-Side Monitoring Service Design a Distributed Cache Design a Distributed Messaging Queue Design a Pub-Sub Design a Rate Limiter Design a Blob Store Design a Distributed Search Design a Distributed Logging Service Design a Distributed Task Scheduler Design Sharded Counters

Advanced Design Problems

Design YouTube Design Quora Design Google Maps Design a Proximity Service/Yelp Design Uber Design Twitter Design a Newsfeed Design Instagram Design a URL Shortening Service/TinyURL Design a Web Crawler Design WhatsApp Design Typeahead Suggestion Design a Collaborative Document Editing Service/Google Docs

Concluding Remarks

Conclusion

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