Rocking System Design

Name: Rocking System Design
Rating: 4.5 (3074 reviews)

Learn system design, from building blocks to complex architectures for interviews and real world projects

Bestseller

Highest Rated

Created byRajdeep Saha | Ex-Principal Solutions Architect @AWS

Last updated 7/2024

English

What you'll learn

How to answer system design interview questions
Learn from real world cloud architect - pros/cons of different design decisions, bad vs. good answer, pitfalls to avoid, and more
AWS implementation of the design using Kubernetes, Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, ALB, NLB etc.
Solve any system design by mastering the basics - scaling, sharding, hashing, microservices, load balancers, security, well architected framework, and more
Test your knowledge with up-to-date system design quizzes

Course content

4 sections • 58 lectures • 9h 28m total length

Monolith vs Microservices - What and Why8:33
Microservices on AWS3:28
Load Balancing with ALB Vs. NLB10:10
API and API Gateway - The Must Know for Every Design3:15
Load Balancer vs API12:56
Scaling - Vertical vs Horizontal6:15
VM, Serverless, Container Scaling9:00
Real World Scaling Interview Tips6:33
Synchronous vs Event Driven Architectures4:57
Queues Vs PubSub4:09
Streaming vs Messaging5:15
SQL vs NoSQL and Aurora vs DynamoDB11:06
Websockets for Server to Client Communication e.g. Chatbot2:14
Caching5:21
Redis Memcached Caching Strategies6:18
High Availability5:07
High Availability vs Fault Tolerance3:14
Distributed Computing3:24
Hashing3:12
Challenges of Hashing3:50
Consistent Hashing11:44
Database Sharding7:47
Disaster Recovery (DR) - RPO vs RTO3:56
Different Disaster Recovery (DR) Options7:21
CAP Theorem16:40
Don't Skip! System Design Basics Quiz
Course Slides0:04

AWS Well Architected Framework9:01
Link to the Well Architected interactive map - https://wa.aws.amazon.com/map.html
Important - Three-Tier Architecture10:57
Three-Tier Architecture on Serverless and Kubernetes4:30
Content Based Messaging System8:26
Store and Retrieve Images12:03
High Priority Queuing/Messaging System8:35
Data Analytics & Big Data Design Patterns12:41
Performance and Cost Optimization8:52
Security - Authentication (Log In) & Authorization7:50
Security - Encryption at Rest & Client/Server Side Encryption10:30
Security - Encryption In Transit with SSL/TLS/MTLS3:31
TLS Vs MTLS4:41
IDS Vs IPS Vs Security Group/NACLs8:19
Optional - Security using IAM User, Role, Group12:53
Twelve Factor App24:33
Twelve (12) factor app
Quick Note about 12 Factor App Interview QA4:13
Cell Based Architecture14:54
Don't Skip! Another Quiz!

Important - MUST Knows for System Design Interviews5:14
Quick Note - Using Timestamps0:30
Design YouTube/Netflix/Prime Video24:51
Timestamps:
0:00 Requirements and features
2:53 Video ingestion
5:36 Database
7:41 Video encoding
10:26 Adult content detection
12:00 Parallel processing
13:21 Content Delivery Network (CDN)
15:44 Searching and viewing video
20:47 S3 cost savings techniques
23:17 Security
Design Twitter25:38
Timestamps in the video:
00:00 Features and design requirements
02:06 Table design
05:36 Timeline design
08:53 Architecture on AWS
12:34 Database discussion with possible interviewer question
17:21 Edge case
19.24 Trending feature
21.34 Security

Twitter engineering reference article: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Twitter-Timeline-Scalability/
Design WhatsApp/Telegram/Snapchat19:22
Design Tinder20:41
Timestamps:
00:00 Requirements and design specs
01:42 Image store/retrieve design
06:21 Match search and database design
09:53 Tinder recommendation engine
15:50 Precomputing matches
17:43 Chat feature
Design Uber17:44
Study below if going for interview with Uber:
Schemaless MySQL: https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-two-architecture/
Ringpop architecture: https://eng.uber.com/ringpop-open-source-nodejs-library/
Design Fandango/Ticketmaster/Livenation5:58
IOT System Design13:13
Design Shopify25:35
00:00 Requirements and design spec
04:57 Online store design
12:04 Cost effectiveness and scaling
14:04 Database design
20:32 Security
22:10 Analytics and high availability
Design URL Shortener/TinyURL16:07
Design Parking Garage18:11
Design Amazon.com/Flipcart17:22
[New] Design Gen AI Systems23:57

Requirements

Willingness to learn lots of new and exciting things!
Basic knowledge of AWS will be helpful to understand the implementations

Description

Instructor of this course, Rajdeep Saha, received LinkedIn elite "Top Systems Design Voice" award in Nov 2023 for his contribution in the field of system design

[Q3 2024] Gen AI System Designs, Cell Based Architecture

[May 2023] Added 12 Factor App explanation, with related interview tips

[Nov 2022] Added Parking Garage System Design

What will you achieve from this course?

Welcome to Rocking System Design on AWS course:

Learn design building blocks such as scaling, sharding, caching, load balancing, microservices, well architected framework, security etc. all in one course
Master any system design using the building blocks starting from three-tier architecture, storing/retrieving images, to YouTube, IoT, Uber, Tinder, Shopify, Amazon and more
Tips, tricks, learning from real world Cloud Architect to use both in interviews and your real world projects
Learn AWS implementation of the design using Kubernetes, Lambda, EC2, API Gateway, and more

About the instructor

Rajdeep Saha is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. He has migrated and designed numerous mission-critical apps in the cloud, handling millions of transactions. Rajdeep has presented at the biggest stages, such as AWS Re:Invent, AWS Summits, and Kubecon. He has authored multiple bestselling courses and mentored students successfully to cloud jobs, including FAANG companies. Rajdeep also runs a successful YouTube channel named "Cloud With Raj" with over 100K+ subscribers. He has over 250,000+ followers across the globe. Rajdeep takes pride in teaching real-world solutions and learnings beyond just theoretical information. You are in capable hands! All opinions are Rajdeep's own.

Course Structure

This course has three main areas - System Design Basics, Reusable Parts of System Design, and Modern Applications System Design

Please check out the list of lectures for detailed breakdown of each area.

This is the course that could take your career to next level. Let's have some fun and design some awesome stuff in cloud together!

Who this course is for:

Developers, engineers, and architects of all levels preparing for system design interviews
Cloud architects who wants to learn more about real world designs and implement those concepts in their projects
Beginners in Cloud DevOps who are curious about system design and architecture

Rocking System Design

What you'll learn

Explore related topics

Course content

System Design Basics26 lectures • 2hr 46min

Reusable Parts of System Design17 lectures • 2hr 46min

System Design of Modern Applications14 lectures • 3hr 54min

Conclusion1 lecture • 2min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: