System Design Concepts Course and Interview Prep

This complete system design tutorial covers scalability, reliability, data handling, and high-level architecture with clear explanations, real-world examples, and practical strategies. You will learn the core concepts you need to know for a system designs interview.

✏️ Course developed by @hayk.simonyan

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⭐️ Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (00:00) Introduction
⌨️ (00:39) Computer Architecture (Disk Storage, RAM, Cache, CPU)
⌨️ (04:22) Production App Architecture (CI/CD, Load Balancers, Logging & Monitoring)
⌨️ (07:12) Design Requirements (CAP Theorem, Throughput, Latency, SLOs and SLAs)
⌨️ (14:40) Networking (TCP, UDP, DNS, IP Addresses & IP Headers)
⌨️ (19:03) Application Layer Protocols (HTTP, WebSockets, WebRTC, MQTT, etc)
⌨️ (24:01) API Design
⌨️ (29:19) Caching and CDNs
⌨️ (36:33) Proxy Servers (Forward/Reverse Proxies)
⌨️ (42:36) Load Balancers
⌨️ (48:05) Databases (Sharding, Replication, ACID, Vertical & Horizontal Scaling)


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