Course Overview

System design interviews play a vital role in hiring software engineers and managers. These interviews test the ability of the candidate to solve problems under different constraints. A candidate’s performance in a system design interview is a significant factor in deciding the hire/no-hire decisions and the level assigned to the incoming candidate.

In this course, you’ll go through a miniature form of our primary course on system design: Grokking Modern System Design Interview for Engineers & Managers. This crash course aims to give you an overall gist of the system designing process using short, easy-to-digest problems. Each design problem of the course can be completed in about 15 minutes, giving you the flexibility to include them in your jam-packed schedules.

What You’ll Learn

• An understanding of system design to get you ready for the interview in less time
• Familiarity with a collection of 30 frequently asked design problems and solutions
• The ability to pick and choose a problem of your liking and complete it in 15 minutes
• An understanding of how various popular web-scale services are constructed
• The ability to learn how larger systems use smaller systems as building blocks

Course Content

1.Introduction

This chapter introduces you to System Design and its Interview, course structure, prerequisites, and how it prepares you for system design interviews.

• Introduction to the System Design Interview Prep Crash Course
• Course Structure for System Design Interview Prep Crash Course

2.Elementary Design Problems

This chapter teaches you fundamental system designs like load balancers, distributed caches, messaging queues, etc. essential for designing real-world systems.

• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Load Balancers
• Databases in Distributed Systems
• Design a Key-Value Store
• Design a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• Design a Unique ID Generator
• Design a Client-Side Monitoring Service
• Design a Server-Side Monitoring Service
• Design a Distributed Cache
• Design a Distributed Messaging Queue
• Design a Pub-Sub
• Design a Rate Limiter
• Design a Blob Store
• Design a Distributed Search
• Design a Distributed Logging Service
• Design a Distributed Task Scheduler
• Design Sharded Counters

3.Advanced Design Problems

This chapter focuses on complex designs like YouTube, Uber, Google Maps, Instagram, etc., honing your skills for the tough system design interviews.

• Design YouTube
• Design Quora
• Design Google Maps
• Design a Proximity Service/Yelp
• Design Uber
• Design Twitter
• Design a Newsfeed
• Design Instagram
• Design a URL Shortening Service/TinyURL
• Design a Web Crawler
• Design WhatsApp
• Design Typeahead Suggestion
• Design a Collaborative Document Editing Service/Google Docs

4.Concluding Remarks

This chapter wraps up the course, summarizing key insights and preparing you for success in your upcoming system design interviews.

• Conclusion