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Track 07

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System Design & Distributed Systems

The durable systems skills behind every AI product: storage, queues, consistency, concurrency, and capacity under failure.

  • Intermediate
  • Chapters coming soon

What this track will cover

The outcomes the published chapters will build toward.

  1. Choose consistency and storage models that match the workload
  2. Reason about queues, retries, idempotency, and backpressure
  3. Design a migration and capacity plan you can defend

Main subjects

The territory this track covers.

  1. 01Databases
  2. 02Storage
  3. 03Caching
  4. 04Messaging
  5. 05Consistency
  6. 06Concurrency
  7. 07Capacity planning
  8. 08Reliability
  9. 09Migrations

Who this is for

Engineers who design services and data flows, not only endpoints and model calls.

Before you start

  • Some backend development experience
  • Familiarity with a relational database
  • Comfort reasoning about latency and failure

Curriculum

Chapters coming soon

In progress

Chapters are being written.

This track is scoped but not yet published. The subjects above are the planned path; lessons will appear here as each chapter is ready.

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