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System Design

System Design.

Design production systems — APIs, scaling, reliability, data consistency, and end-to-end architecture tradeoffs.

1 Beginner 1 Intermediate 1 Advanced

Beginner

Start here — no prior experience needed

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system-design beginner
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System Design Essentials (Beginner)

Learn the core building blocks of system design: requirements, APIs, data, scaling, reliability, and tradeoffs.

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Intermediate

For developers with core concepts down

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system-design intermediate
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Scaling & Reliability Tradeoffs (Intermediate)

Scale systems with caching, queues, rate limiting, and resilient retry patterns; model failure modes and SLIs/SLOs.

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Advanced

Production-grade patterns for experienced engineers

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system-design advanced
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Deep Dive: Consistency & Distributed Systems (Advanced)

Design consistency strategies, handle partitions, and reason about distributed tradeoffs using real patterns.

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