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Software Architecture

System Design by Example

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

Learn to design resilient systems for innovative technologies

Course outcomes:

  • Understand how to approach problems and requirements using system design methodology
  • Learn how to solve challenging real-time scenarios

Course description:

Join expert Rohit Bhardwaj to examine a step-by-step approach to system design using real-world examples from Uber, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, Instagram, Yelp, Twitter, and more. You’ll also explore search engine and fraud detection system design.

Week 1: System Design Fundamentals

Week 2: System Design Deep Dive

NOTE: With today’s registration, you’ll be signed up for both sessions. Although you can attend either of the sessions individually, we recommend participating in both.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Apply system design methodology to your current projects
  • Apply system design principles to real-time scenarios

This live event is for you because...

  • You’re a technical lead or a software, integration, or solutions architect.
  • You’re planning to interview for a system design job.

Prerequisites

  • A general understanding of system design principles

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Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Week 1: Mastering System Design Fundamentals

System design methodology (50 minutes)

  • Presentation: Empathy map; scaling KPIs; performance KPIs; back-of-envelope calculations; context diagrams; choosing the right database
  • Hands-on exercises: Explore calculation and design
  • Break

Problems and solutions for designing applications—Part I (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Designing a taxi-hailing app; designing a streaming service; Spark and Cassandra for real-time analytics
  • Hands-on exercises: Explore taxi-hailing app, streaming service, and data model design
  • Break

Problems and solutions for designing applications—Part II (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Designing a news feed, URL shortener, and auction
  • Hands-on exercises: Explore news feed, URL shortener, and auction site design

Wrap-up and Q&A (10 minutes)

Week 2: System Design Deep Dive

Problems and solutions for designing applications—Part III (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Designing online shopping, booking services, and coupon systems
  • Hands-on exercises: Explore ecommerce site and booking services design
  • Break

Problems and solutions for designing applications—Part IV (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Designing chat apps, taxi-hailing apps (revisited), and product recommendations services
  • Hands-on exercises: Explore product information system design
  • Break

Problems and solutions for designing applications—Part V (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Designing mobile couponing, fraud detection, social media sentiment analysis, and product search services; system design challenges
  • Hands-on exercises: Explore text analysis and search
  • Q&A

Your Instructor

  • Rohit Bhardwaj

    Rohit Bhardwaj is director of architecture and technical consulting at Salesforce. He has extensive experience architecting multitenant cloud-native solutions in resilient microservices and service-oriented architectures using the AWS stack and a proven ability to design solutions and execute and deliver transformational programs that reduce costs and increase efficiencies. Rohit is a regular speaker at No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, RichWeb, GIDS, and other international conferences. He has an MBA in corporate entrepreneurship from Babson College and a master’s degree in computer science from Boston University and Harvard University. Connect with him at http://www.productivecloudinnovation.com.

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