System Design 201: Advanced Systems

Overview

• Focuses on scaling strategies and production realities beyond fundamentals
• Covers throughput, real-time processing, data-intensive architectures, and consistency models

Learning Goals

• Design services for high throughput and predictable performance
• Apply real-time processing patterns for streaming data
• Architect data-intensive systems with storage and compute separation
• Choose appropriate consistency and isolation models (and know the trade-offs)

Prerequisites

• Completed or familiar with concepts from System Design 101
• Comfortable with distributed systems basics, caching, queues, and storage types

Course Structure

• Module 1: High Throughput
• Module 2: Real-Time
• Module 3: Data-Intensive
• Module 4: Consistency

Where to Start

• Begin with Module 1 to build scaling foundations, then proceed in order