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Software Engineering / Beginner

System Design Tutorial

A complete Syntaxis course for System Design, organized into atomic topics with concept-specific examples and mastery checks.

48 lessons~9.6 hoursvModern workspace_premium Certificate available

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Course curriculum

MODULE 01

Requirements & Capacity

8 lessons

1functional requirements

2non-functional requirements

3traffic estimation

4storage estimation

5bandwidth estimation

6latency budget

7availability target

8read/write ratio

MODULE 02

Scaling & Distribution

8 lessons

1vertical scaling

2horizontal scaling

3load balancing

4consistent hashing

5stateless services

6service discovery

7partitioning/sharding

MODULE 03

Caching & Data

8 lessons

2write-through cache

3write-back cache

4cache invalidation

5database indexing

8event sourcing

MODULE 04

Messaging & Async

8 lessons

2publish-subscribe

3dead-letter queue

4retry with backoff

5idempotent consumer

6outbox pattern

7stream processing

8saga orchestration

MODULE 05

Reliability

8 lessons

2circuit breaker

3bulkhead isolation

6graceful degradation

7multi-region failover

8disaster recovery RPO/RTO

MODULE 06

Interfaces & Observability

8 lessons

2service-to-service authentication

3distributed tracing

4structured logging

5metrics and SLOs

6correlation IDs

8schema evolution

Certificate Included

System Design Certificate

Earn this credential in either of two ways: complete 100% of the course, or take the master exam directly and score 85% or higher. You do not need to finish the course before attempting the exam.

Course completion path

Finish every published lesson → completion certificate is issued automatically.

Mastery exam path

15 MCQs · 100 marks · 30 minutes · 85% pass · 4 attempts.

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