System Design

Master the art of building scalable architecture, from basics to production-grade systems.

Course•39 lessons

Welcome to the System Design. Here you will learn how to design systems that can scale to millions of users.

Curriculum

1

Foundations of System Design

12 articles

Client-Server Architecture Patterns

The Pillars of Network Communication: IP, TCP, and HTTP

Real-Time Communication: Polling vs. Streaming

Real-Time Communication: WebSockets, Polling & Streaming

Advanced Caching Strategies in Distributed Systems

Distributed Hashing Strategy

Latency vs. Throughput: Mastering System Performance Metrics

Database Replication: Strategies & Scalability

Designing Resilient Systems: Eliminating Single Points of Failure

Direct-to-Object-Storage: Pre-signed URLs

Failover & Health Monitoring: The Heartbeat Pattern

Global Traffic Routing & Domain Name System (DNS)

2

Non-Functional Requirements

7 articles

System Availability: Designing for Uptime & Reliability

System Latency: Designing for Speed & Responsiveness

System Scale: Designing for Growth & High Load

Consistency in Distributed Systems

Data Durability & Persistence Guarantees

Read-Write Ratio

High Availability & Fault Tolerance

3

Core Building Blocks

10 articles

Load Balancing (Intro + Techniques)

Caching Advanced

Forward Proxy & Reverse Proxy

Pub/Sub & Event-Driven Architectures

Monolith vs Microservices

4

Data Layer & Storage

10 articles

Database Indexing

Consistent Hashing

Key-Value Stores

MapReduce & Distributed Processing

Mastering Latency Metrics

Replication Advanced