Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview
Learn system design through architectural review of real systems.
Level:
Advanced
Study Time:
21h
Lessons:
118
33,977 (Students)
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 given that a good performance in system design interviews will get you a senior position and result in higher salaries.
This course presents the architectural review of famous distributed systems. The main goal is to extract out important design details that are relevant to system design interviews. The course also presents a list of system design patterns that constitute the common design problems and their solutions that different distributed systems have developed over time.
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Course Content
• 11 Chapters • 118 Lessons
3.
Cassandra: How to Design a Wide-column NoSQL Database?
12 lessons
4.
Kafka: How to Design a Distributed Messaging System?
13 lessons
5.
Chubby: How to Design a Distributed Locking Service?
14 lessons
6.
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
Garbage Collection
Criticism on GFS
Summary: GFS
Quiz: GFS
Mock Interview: GFS
7.
HDFS: How to Design File Storage System?
12 lessons
8.
BigTable: How to Design a Wide Column Storage System?
15 lessons
BigTable: Introduction
BigTable Data Model
System APIs
Partitioning and High-level Architecture
SSTable
GFS and Chubby
Bigtable Components
Working with Tablets
The Life of BigTable's Read & Write Operations
Fault Tolerance and Compaction
BigTable Refinements
BigTable Characteristics
Summary: BigTable
Quiz: BigTable
Mock Interview: BigTable
9.
System Design Patterns
21 lessons
Introduction: System Design Patterns
1. Bloom Filters
2. Consistent Hashing
3. Quorum
4. Leader and Follower
5. Write-ahead Log
6. Segmented Log
7. High-Water Mark
8. Lease
9. Heartbeat
10. Gossip Protocol
11. Phi Accrual Failure Detection
12. Split Brain
13. Fencing
14. Checksum
15. Vector Clocks
16. CAP Theorem
17. PACELC Theorem
18. Hinted Handoff
19. Read Repair
20. Merkle Trees
11.
Appendix
1 lesson
What people say about our courses

Vivien Ruska
Software Engineer
Hey, I wasn't looking for interview materials but in general I wanted to learn about system design, and I bumped into 'Grokking the System Design Interview' on designgurus.io - it also walks you through popular apps like Instagram, Twitter, etc.👌

Brandon Lyons
Software Engineer
The famous "grokking the system design interview course" on http://designgurus.io is amazing. I used this for my MSFT interviews and I was told I nailed it.

Nathan Thomas
Software Engineer
My newest course recommendation for all of you is to check out Grokking the System Design Interview on designgurus.io. I'm working through it this month, and I'd highly recommend it.

MO JAFRI
Software Engineer
The courses which have "grokking" before them, are exceptionally well put together! These courses magically condense 3 years of CS in short bite-size courses and lectures (I have tried System Design, OODI, and Coding patterns). The Grokking courses are godsent, to be honest.

ABHISHEK GUPTA
Software Engineer
My offer from the top tech company would not have been possible without this course. Many thanks!!

KAUSHIK JONNADULA
Software Engineer
Thanks for a great resource! You guys are a lifesaver. I struggled a lot in design interviews, and this course gave me an organized process to handle a design problem. Please keep adding more questions.

AHMET HANIF
Software Engineer
Whoever put this together, you folks are life savers. Thank you :)
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