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System Design Fundamentals
“How apps serve millions of users: load balancers, caches, databases at scale and queues, plus the framework for system design interviews.”
Lessons
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- Scaling from 1 to 1 Million Users🔒How a simple app grows into a system, one bottleneck at a time. · 12 min
- Caching Strategies & Building an LRU Cache🔒Implement the cache behind every fast system. A top interview question. · 14 min
- Load Balancers🔒Spread traffic across servers, and skip the ones that are down. · 11 min
- Databases at Scale: Replication & Sharding🔒Copy data for reliability, split it for size, and understand the trade-offs. · 12 min
- Queues & Background Jobs🔒Do slow work later, retry failures safely, and keep your app fast. · 12 min
- Case Study: Design a URL Shortener🔒Walk through a classic system design interview, then build its core logic. · 15 min
- Acing System Design Interviews (+ Rate Limiter)🔒A 45-minute framework, and the token-bucket rate limiter every big site uses. · 15 min
- Case study: design a chat appComing soon ✏️
- Case study: design a news feedComing soon ✏️
- CDNs & object storageComing soon ✏️