System Design: The Complete Guide

A comprehensive Grokking-style course covering scalability, databases, microservices, and interview patterns.

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1. Introduction to System Design
8 min
2. Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling
10 min
3. Load Balancing
4 min
4. Caching Strategies
4 min
5. CDNs (Content Delivery Networks)
10 min
6. SQL vs NoSQL
16 min
7. Database Sharding & Partitioning
14 min
8. The CAP Theorem
16 min
9. Microservices Architecture
14 min
10. Message Queues & Event Streaming
16 min
12. Design BookMyShow (Ticket Booking)
24 min
14. Design Dropbox (Cloud File Storage)
7 min
15. How to Approach Any System Design Interview
18 min
16. Back-of-the-Envelope Estimation
14 min
17. Consistent Hashing
16 min
18. Bloom Filters & Probabilistic Data Structures
14 min
19. Database Replication
18 min
20. Leader Election & Consensus (Raft & Paxos)
18 min
21. Distributed Transactions (Saga, 2PC, Outbox)
18 min
22. Event Sourcing & CQRS
18 min
23. Unique ID Generation at Scale
12 min
24. Rate Limiting Algorithms
12 min
25. Circuit Breakers & Bulkhead Pattern
14 min
26. API Gateway, Proxies & Service Mesh
14 min
27. Real-Time Communication
14 min
28. Observability (Tracing, Logging, SLOs)
14 min
30. Design a Chat System (WhatsApp)
18 min
31. Design YouTube (Video Streaming)
18 min
32. Design a Web Crawler
16 min