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Deep dives into papers, open source projects, and system design problems. Built for senior engineers.
What you'll learn
Comprehensive curriculum covering distributed systems, system design interviews, and production-grade engineering.
Whitepapers
15 courses- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
- The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree)
- In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Raft)
- TAO: Facebook's Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph
- + 11 more
Open Source
10 courses- Redis: In-Memory Data Structure Store
- Apache Cassandra: Distributed Wide-Column Store
- Envoy Proxy: Modern L7 Proxy and Communication Bus
- Apache Hadoop: Distributed Storage and Processing
- + 6 more
System Design Fundamentals
11 courses- Latency, Throughput & Performance
- Scalability Fundamentals
- Database Fundamentals
- Load Balancing Deep Dive
- + 7 more
System Design Masterclass
58 courses- Cluster Health Monitoring System
- User Analytics Dashboard & Event Pipeline
- WhatsApp / Messenger
- API Rate Limiter
- + 54 more
Patterns
35 courses- Sharding Pattern
- Queue-based Load Leveling Pattern
- Replication Pattern
- Conflict Resolution Pattern
- + 31 more
What you get
Every course is designed to help you deeply understand complex systems.
1
TL;DR summaries
Quick overview of key concepts and takeaways for busy engineers.
2
Architecture diagrams
Visual representations of system designs using Mermaid diagrams.
3
Trade-offs analysis
Understand what systems gained and what they sacrificed.
4
AI-powered Q&A
Ask Claude questions about any paper or system design concept.