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Interactive Learning Path

System Design Curriculum.

From requirements and APIs to scaling patterns and distributed consistency.

This curriculum builds system design fundamentals and then upgrades them with scaling and distributed correctness.

Suggested learning order

  1. System Design Essentials (requirements, APIs, data flow)
  2. Scaling & Reliability Tradeoffs (queues, caching, retries)
  3. Deep Dive: Consistency & Distributed Systems (partitions, exactly-once patterns)

Roadmap Curriculum

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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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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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Deep Dive: Consistency & Distributed Systems (Advanced)

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