System Design Concepts and Interview Preparation

This course introduces core system design through computer architecture, production application architecture, networking, API design, caching, load balancing, and scalable database patterns. It covers CAP theorem, throughput, latency, SLOs, SLAs, sharding, replication, and ACID.

Syllabus

⌨️ Introduction
⌨️ Computer Architecture Disk Storage, RAM, Cache, CPU
⌨️ Production App Architecture CI/CD, Load Balancers, Logging & Monitoring
⌨️ Design Requirements CAP Theorem, Throughput, Latency, SLOs and SLAs
⌨️ Networking TCP, UDP, DNS, IP Addresses & IP Headers
⌨️ Application Layer Protocols HTTP, WebSockets, WebRTC, MQTT, etc
⌨️ API Design
⌨️ Caching and CDNs
⌨️ Proxy Servers Forward/Reverse Proxies
⌨️ Load Balancers
⌨️ Databases Sharding, Replication, ACID, Vertical & Horizontal Scaling