Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview

Name: Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview
Price: 138 USD
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Learn system design through architectural review of real systems.

Level:

Advanced

Study Time:

21h

Lessons:

118

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Course Overview

System design questions have increasingly become an integral part of software engineering interviews. For senior engineers, the discussion around system design is considered even more important than solving a coding question. In a system design interview, you can show your real design skills and show how they will work with designing complex systems. It is a...

Course Content

• 11 Chapters • 118 Lessons

Introduction

1 lesson

What Is This Course About?

Dynamo: How to design a key value store?

12 lessons

Dynamo: Introduction

High-Level Architecture

Data Partitioning

Replication

Vector Clocks and Conflicting Data

The Life of Dynamo’s put() & get() Operations

Anti-entropy Through Merkle Trees

Gossip Protocol

Dynamo Characteristics and Criticism

Summary: Dynamo

Quiz: Dynamo

Mock Interview: Dynamo

Cassandra: How to Design a Wide-column NoSQL Database?

12 lessons

Cassandra: Introduction

High-level Architecture

Replication

Cassandra Consistency Levels

Gossiper

Anatomy of Cassandra's Write Operation

Anatomy of Cassandra's Read Operation

Mock Interview: Cassandra

Kafka: How to Design a Distributed Messaging System?

13 lessons

Messaging Systems: Introduction

Kafka: Introduction

High-level Architecture

Kafka Delivery Semantics

Kafka Characteristics

Summary: Kafka

Quiz: Kafka

Mock Interview: Kafka

Chubby: How to Design a Distributed Locking Service?

14 lessons

Chubby: Introduction

High-level Architecture

Design Rationale

How Chubby Works

File, Directories, and Handles

Locks, Sequencers, and Lock-delays

Sessions and Events

Master Election and Chubby Events

Mock Interview: Chubby

GFS: How to Design a Distributed File System Storage?

15 lessons

Google File System: Introduction

High-level Architecture

Single Master and Large Chunk Size

Metadata

Master Operations

Anatomy of a Read Operation

Anatomy of a Write Operation

Anatomy of an Append Operation

GFS Consistency Model and Snapshotting

Fault Tolerance, High Availability, and Data Integrity

HDFS: How to Design File Storage System?

12 lessons

Hadoop Distributed File System: Introduction

High-level Architecture

Deep Dive

Anatomy of a Read Operation

Anatomy of a Write Operation

Data Integrity & Caching

Fault Tolerance

HDFS High Availability (HA)

BigTable: How to Design a Wide Column Storage System?

15 lessons

BigTable: Introduction

BigTable Data Model

System APIs

Partitioning and High-level Architecture

The Life of BigTable's Read & Write Operations

Fault Tolerance and Compaction

BigTable Refinements

BigTable Characteristics

Summary: BigTable

Quiz: BigTable

Mock Interview: BigTable

10.

Final Assessment

2 lessons

Quiz I

Quiz II

11.

Appendix

1 lesson

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