Software

Learn System Design

3 plans — 19 lessons

Design scalable services, APIs, and data flows that last.

Beginner Path10-day sprint

10-day sprint

Learn System Design in 10 days

Design scalable services, APIs, and data flows that last.

System design fundamentals
Requirements and capacity planning
Data storage and indexing
+3 more topics

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Intermediate Path21-day sprint

21-day sprint

Intermediate System Design in 21 days

Load balancing, caching with Redis, database scaling, message queues, CDNs, and rate limiting.

Load balancing strategies
Caching with Redis
Database scaling: replication and sharding
+4 more topics

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Advanced Path30-day sprint

30-day sprint

Advanced System Design in 30 days

Distributed consensus, event sourcing, CQRS, service mesh, chaos engineering, and 99.99% uptime patterns.

Distributed consensus: Paxos and Raft
Event sourcing and CQRS
Service mesh and observability
+3 more topics

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What You'll Learn

01Foundation

System design fundamentals

Learn core concepts like scalability, latency, and throughput.

foundationsarchitecturebasics

02Foundation

Requirements and capacity planning

Define requirements and estimate capacity needs.

requirementscapacityplanning

03Core

Data storage and indexing

Choose databases and indexing strategies.

databasesindexingstorage

04Core

Caching and performance

Improve performance with caching patterns.

cachingperformancelatency

05Core

Reliability and observability

Add monitoring, logging, and fault tolerance.

reliabilityobservabilitymonitoring

06Challenge

Design a scalable service

Apply the full process to a real-world system.

projectscalabilitypractice

Design systems that scale

10 days of scalability, caching, storage patterns, and reliability — build the mindset senior engineers have.

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This plan gave me a real framework for system design interviews. I got the job offer the week after finishing.

— Mike M., senior engineer

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