Backend System Design
Develop system-thinking skills to design complex backend distributed systems. Learn to handle scaling, data storage, reliability, performance, security, and asynchronous workflows, and understand the tradeoffs behind each architecture decision so you can approach complex system design with confidence.
What you'll learn
- Develop system-thinking skills for complex backend design challenges
- Understand scaling, data storage, reliability, and performance tradeoffs
- Learn to design distributed systems with caches, load balancers, and replicas
- Define functional and non-functional requirements for real-world systems
- Model data, choose protocols, and design APIs and endpoints
- Implement security, authentication, authorization, and HTTPS termination
- Use asynchronous workflows with queues, workers, and message brokers
- Practice system design via exercises like URL shorteners and video upload services
Skills you'll gain
- Recognize and model systems and their components in diagrams
- Define and translate business, functional, and non-functional requirements
- Design distributed systems using clients, servers, databases, caches, and load balancers
- Apply CAP theorem and reason about consistency, availability, and tradeoffs
- Choose and model relational vs non-relational databases and apply sharding and replication
- Design caching layers, invalidation strategies, and scaling approaches
- Implement secure architectures with HTTPS termination and auth strategies
- Design asynchronous workflows with queues, workers, and message brokers for tasks like video processing
Prerequisites
- • Basic understanding of web applications and HTTP
- • Familiarity with databases and CRUD-style applications
- • General programming experience building backend or fullstack apps
Who this course is for
- → Backend and fullstack engineers preparing for system design interviews
- → Developers aiming to grow into senior or staff-level backend roles
- → Engineers who want to design scalable, reliable distributed systems
Provider
Frontend Masters
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