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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.
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.
Need to prep for a system design interview in a hurry? Whether your interview is days away or your schedule is packed, this cras...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
An understanding of system design to get you ready for the interview in less time
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Content
1.
Introduction
2 Lessons
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
17 Lessons
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
16 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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