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System design · Day 10
Capstone: design a URL shortener from first principles
Bring requirements, APIs, storage, caching, queues, scaling, and reliability together in one complete beginner design.
System design · Day 9
Reliability: design for failure, not hope
Use timeouts, retries, redundancy, observability, and graceful degradation to keep a system useful when parts fail.
System design · Day 8
Replication and partitioning: grow beyond one database
Understand read replicas, consistency lag, sharding keys, and the trade-offs that appear when data spans machines.
System design · Day 7
Queues and asynchronous work: decouple the slow path
Learn when to move work out of a request, how workers consume messages, and why delivery guarantees demand idempotency.