Preparing for a System Design interview can take anywhere from 3 to 10 weeks, depending on your skill level, the role you’re applying to, and other external factors. Ideally, you should commit to 3 hours a day for 5 days a week.
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System Design Interview: Fast-Track in 48 Hours
Need to learn System Design in a hurry? Grasp essential concepts, practice real design scenarios, and build interview confidence—all through 15-minute problem sets crafted for speed and impact.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- 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
Learning Roadmap
1.
Introduction
Introduction
This chapter introduces you to System Design and its Interview, course structure, prerequisites, and how it prepares you for system design interviews.
2.
Elementary Design Problems
Elementary Design Problems
This chapter teaches you fundamental system designs like load balancers, distributed caches, messaging queues, etc. essential for designing real-world systems.
Domain Name System (DNS)Load BalancersDatabases in Distributed SystemsDesign a Key-Value StoreDesign a Content Delivery Network (CDN)Design a Unique ID GeneratorDesign a Client-Side Monitoring ServiceDesign a Server-Side Monitoring ServiceDesign a Distributed CacheDesign a Distributed Messaging QueueDesign a Pub-SubDesign a Rate LimiterDesign a Blob StoreDesign a Distributed SearchDesign a Distributed Logging ServiceDesign a Distributed Task SchedulerDesign Sharded Counters
3.
Advanced Design Problems
Advanced Design Problems
17 Lessons
17 Lessons
This chapter focuses on complex designs like YouTube, Uber, Google Maps, Instagram, etc., honing your skills for the tough system design interviews.
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ABOUT THIS COURSE
Need to prep for a system design interview in a hurry? Whether your interview is days away or your schedule is packed, this crash course helps you ramp up fast. Learn the core patterns, apply structured thinking, and solve real-world design problems—all in under 15 minutes per challenge. This is a condensed version of our flagship course, Grokking the Modern System Design Interview for Engineers & Managers, designed to help you build confidence, master fundamentals, and perform under pressure. Perfect for software engineers and managers aiming to ace high-stakes interviews at top tech companies.
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Software Engineer, Distributed Storage at Meta and Microsoft, Educative (Co-founder & CEO)
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