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Systems Design Foundations
Cross-cutting design synthesis, architecture trade-offs, and system-level framing.
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CLASSIFICATION
15 tracks / 257 lessons
TRACKS
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Cross-cutting design synthesis, architecture trade-offs, and system-level framing.
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Service decomposition, gateways, meshes, orchestration, and platform control surfaces.
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API contracts, backend layering, request flow, and persistence boundary design.
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Team topology, platform strategy, delivery flow, and operational governance.
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Long-running workflows, compensation, scheduling, visibility, and the engines used to coordinate business processes across services.
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Domain modeling, bounded contexts, service boundaries, and the trade-offs behind carving systems around capabilities rather than endpoints.
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Isolation models, noisy-neighbor control, tenant routing, billing boundaries, and the platform trade-offs behind multi-tenant systems.
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Internal platform adoption, paved roads, platform economics, and product thinking for developer-facing infrastructure teams.
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Practical backend engineering foundations: internet requests, language/runtime choices, databases, testing, deployment, and operational basics.
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Container runtime mechanics, image delivery, Kubernetes workload primitives, networking, storage, autoscaling, PDBs, service mesh sidecars, security profiles, and platform operations for backend services.
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Problem selection, user discovery, product wedges, MVPs, pricing, distribution, metrics, and small-team execution discipline.
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Practical judgment for builders: simplicity, leverage, maintainability, debugging, naming, review, and the craft of choosing what not to build.
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Hack useful ideas together quickly without losing the engineering thread: CLIs, scripts, APIs, local tools, iteration loops, and prototype discipline.
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Advanced API protocol mechanics for backend systems: HTTP/2, HTTP/3, TLS 1.3, gRPC streams, GraphQL execution, gateway policy, binary encodings, and contract evolution.
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Terraform-style infrastructure workflows: desired state, state files, modules, drift, policy gates, CI/CD, GitOps, cost controls, and rebuildable cloud environments.
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