Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview

Learn system design through architectural review of real systems.

Level:
Advanced
Videos:
2
Study Time:
20h
Lessons:
117
Assessments:
151
Updated
Last month
4.3
(11,234 ratings)
44,420 learners
Arslan Ahmad
Created byArslan Ahmad
Ex FAANG Manager, Expert Behind Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview

Course Overview

System design questions have increasingly become an integral part of software engineering interviews. For senior engineers, the discussion around system design is considered even more important than solving a coding question. In a system design interview, you can show your real design skills and show how they will work with designing complex systems. It is a given that a good performance in system design interviews will get you a senior position and result in higher salaries. This course presents the architectural review of famous distributed systems. The main goal is to extract out important design details that are relevant to system design interviews. The course also presents a list of system design patterns that constitute the common design problems and their solutions that different distributed systems have developed over time.

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Course Content

• 11 Chapters • 117 Lessons
1.

Introduction

1 lesson

What Is This Course About?

Messaging Systems: Introduction

Kafka: Introduction

High-level Architecture

Consumer Groups

Hidden Document

Role of ZooKeeper

Controller Broker

Kafka Delivery Semantics

Kafka Characteristics

Summary: Kafka

Quiz: Kafka

Mock Interview: Kafka

What people say about our courses

Steven Zhang avatar
Steven Zhang
Software Engineer
Just wanted to say thanks for your Grokking the system design interview resource (https://lnkd.in/g4Wii9r7) - it helped me immensely when I was interviewing from Tableau (very little system design exp) and helped me land 18 FAANG+ jobs!
Eric avatar
Eric
Software Engineer
I've completed my first pass of "grokking the System Design Interview" and I can say this was an excellent use of money and time. I've grown as a developer and now know the secrets of how to build these really giant internet systems.
Arijeet avatar
Arijeet
Software Engineer
Just completed the “Grokking the system design interview”. It's amazing and super informative. Have come across very few courses that are as good as this!
Simon Barker avatar
Simon Barker
Software Engineer
This is what I love about http://designgurus.io’s Grokking the coding interview course. They teach patterns rather than solutions.
Roger Cruz avatar
Roger Cruz
Software Engineer
The world gets better inch by inch when you help someone else. If you haven't tried Grokking The Coding Interview, check it out, it's a great resource!
Ashley Pean avatar
Ashley Pean
Software Engineer
Check out Grokking the Coding Interview. Instead of trying out random Algos, they break down the patterns you need to solve them. Helps immensely with retention!

About the Author

Arslan Ahmad

Arslan Ahmad

Design Gurus Founder
Ex-FAANG Manager
Meta
Microsoft
Google
Amazon
Uber

Industry Expertise & Leadership

Arslan Ahmad is the lead author of Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview. As the founder of Design Gurus and a former FAANG hiring manager, he has worked at industry giants like Facebook (now Meta) and Microsoft.

He has conducted hundreds of system design interviews, giving him unique insight into what top tech companies look for in candidates.

The course also incorporates expertise from senior engineers at Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber, ensuring you learn system design best practices from professionals who have built and scaled real-world systems.

500+

Interviews Conducted

10k+

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