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Advanced System Design Interview Prep: Crash Course

Have a System Design Interview coming up? Brush up on best practices and get interview-ready in <5 hours with a selection of hand-picked, real-world problems.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In-depth knowledge of 9 real-world systems in under 5 hours
An understanding of how to build systems based on principles of modern system design
The ability to evaluate trade-offs to make informed design choices
An understanding of the complexity of real-world systems

Learning Roadmap

11 Lessons9 Quizzes

Introduction

In this chapter, you'll get an overview of the course and understand its approach to preparing for advanced system design interviews using real-world examples.

Prologue

Design Problems

This chapter focuses on system design topics and case studies like Google File System (GFS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Google's Bigtable, MapReduce, etc.

Design of the Google File System (GFS)

Design of Google Colossus (GFS-II)

SILT Key-Value Store

Amazon DynamoDB

Google's Bigtable

Two-Phase Locking (2PL)

Google’s MapReduce

Two-Phase Commit (2PC)

State Machine Replication (SMR)

Conclusion

In this chapter, you'll review the key takeaways and solidify your understanding of the system design principles discussed throughout the course.

Epilogue

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

Developed by MAANG Engineers

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This course will help you confidently prepare for advanced system design interview questions—in less than 5 hours. As foundational systems underpin our modern software landscape, the case studies in this course will prepare you with actionable knowledge to design and evaluate any distributed system. This course streamlines system design interview prep by providing you an understanding of real-world distributed systems. You’ll learn about systems from hyperscalers, such as Google File System (GFS) and Amazon DynamoDB. Next, you will make the most out of your interview prep time by learning to build 9 seminal systems (with each design problem taking only 15–30 minutes). All the while, you’ll learn and apply principles of modern system design as you see them implemented in real-world case studies. After taking this course, you’ll be able to confidently approach design problems in your next system design interview.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fahim ul Haq

Software Engineer, Distributed Storage at Meta and Microsoft, Educative (Co-founder & CEO)

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