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System Design
Design systems that hold up under load, failure and five years of change.
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- 14 hrs of content
- 46 lessons
- Advanced level
- Lifetime access
Curriculum
What you'll cover
- 01
Requirements, invariants and back-of-envelope capacity
- 02
Caching, queues and read/write path separation
- 03
Consistency, replication and partitioning trade-offs
- 04
Failure modes, degraded behaviour and capacity planning
What you'll walk away with
- Production-ready code patterns you can ship immediately
- Deep conceptual understanding — not just syntax or memorisation
- Debugging intuition for real-world failure modes
- Architectural judgment you can defend in design reviews
Before you start
Who this is for
- Strong programming fundamentals
- Experience with at least one backend language
- Familiarity with deployment workflows
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- 46 lessons, 14 hrs of focused material
- Written for advanced engineers
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