Course · Senior / L5

System design interview preparation

Foundations, core building blocks, and the distributed-systems concepts behind them — worked from first principles, with the numbers that justify each decision.

64 lessons · 9 hours

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Foundations

1–2 weeks

Intro to System Design

Basic Components

The Interview Process

Estimation

Core concepts

3–4 weeks

Scalability

Data Management

Networking

Design Patterns

Availability & Reliability

Advanced topics

2–3 weeks

Distributed Concepts

Security

Specific Technologies

Big Data Processing

Practice and mock interviews

Ongoing, 2+ weeks

Worked Designs

Practice