System Architecture

Resources

The primary sources this course is built from, and where to go next.

3 sources
System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide (2nd Ed), Alex Xu

Scaling 0→1M users, estimation, rate limiters, consistent hashing, KV stores, unique IDs.

System Design Interview Vol 2, Alex Xu & Sudipto Sengupta

Proximity service, distributed email, digital wallet, stock exchange, metrics collection.

ByteByteGo, System Design Newsletter & Courses

Visual breakdowns of cloud architectures and the standard distributed building blocks.