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Foundations & Basics |
System Design Basics |
Introduction to System Design |
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Software Architecture vs. System Design |
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Monolithic vs. Microservices |
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Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling |
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Latency, Throughput, Availability, Reliability |
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Networking |
TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS |
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DNS and CDN |
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Load Balancing (L4 vs. L7) |
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Core Design Principles |
CAP theorem |
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ACID vs. BASE |
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Stateless vs. Stateful Services |
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Database & Storage Systems |
Databases |
Relational Databases (SQL) |
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NoSQL Databases |
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Data Modeling |
Normalization & Denormalization |
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Indexing Strategies |
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Sharding & Replication |
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Storage Solutions |
File Storage (NFS, HDFS) |
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Object Storage (S3, Azure Blob) |
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Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses |
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Advanced System Design |
Scalability & Performance |
Caching Strategies |
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Database Connection Pooling |
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Rate Limiting and Throttling |
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Asynchronous Messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ) |
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Distributed Systems & Fault Tolerance |
Leader Election (Raft, Zookeeper) |
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Consensus Algorithms (Paxos, Raft) |
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Data Replication & Consistency Models |
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Disaster Recovery & Failover Techniques |
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Microservices |
Service Discovery (Consul, etcd, Eureka) |
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API Gateways & Service Mesh (NGINX, Kong, Istio) |
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Event-driven Architectures |
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Cloud & Infrastructure |
Cloud Architecture |
AWS, Azure, GCP Overview |
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Serverless Architecture |
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Infrastructure as Code |
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Containerization & Orchestration |
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Monitoring & Observability |
Logging, Monitoring, Alerting |
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Distributed Tracing (OpenTelemetry, Zipkin, Jaeger) |
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Security & Authentication |
Authentication & Authorization (OAuth, JWT, SAML) |
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API Security (Rate limiting, API keys) |
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Secure Storage & Encryption |
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System Design Patterns |
Design Patterns |
Singleton, Factory, Observer, Strategy |
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Circuit Breaker & Bulkhead Patterns |
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CQRS & Event Sourcing |
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Case Studies & Interview Prep |
Real-world Case Studies |
Social media, messaging, video streaming, e-commerce systems |
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Interview Preparation |
System Design Interview Frameworks |
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