System Design Interview: Fast-Track in 48 Hours
Accelerate Your System Design Interview Prep
Pressed for time before your system design interview? This crash course is built for professionals who need a focused, no-fluff prep plan.
Course Overview
In bite-sized, 15-minute modules, you’ll cover the key concepts, tools, and design patterns that interviewers expect you to know — without having to wade through hundreds of pages of theory.
You’ll walk through real-world scenarios that mirror actual interview prompts, from scaling a messaging app to building a video-sharing platform. Each lesson is engineered to help you sharpen your thinking, tighten your explanations, and bring structure to even the messiest problems. Whether you’re cramming the night before or brushing up on your fundamentals, this course gives you the essentials.
Need to learn System Design in a hurry? Grasp essential concepts, practice real design scenarios, and build interview confidence—all through 15-minute problem sets crafted for speed and impact.
What You'll Learn
- The most common building blocks used in system design interviews, including load balancers, caching layers, and databases
- How to break down vague problems and surface hidden requirements
- Patterns for scaling systems and avoiding common bottlenecks
- Trade-offs between availability, consistency, latency, and cost
- Back-of-the-envelope calculations and quick estimations under pressure
- Design walkthroughs of popular systems like WhatsApp, YouTube, and URL shorteners
- How to communicate your design clearly, justify your decisions, and handle follow-up questions with confidence
Introduction
- Introduction to the System Design Interview Prep Crash Course
- Course Structure for System Design Interview Prep Crash Course
Elementary Design Problems
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Load Balancers
- Databases in Distributed Systems
- Design a Key-Value Store
- Design a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Design a Unique ID Generator
- Design a Client-Side Monitoring Service
- Design a Server-Side Monitoring Service
- Design a Distributed Cache
- Design a Distributed Messaging Queue
- Design a Pub-Sub
- Design a Rate Limiter
- Design a Blob Store
- Design a Distributed Search
- Design a Distributed Logging Service
- Design a Distributed Task Scheduler
- Design Sharded Counters
Advanced Design Problems
- Design YouTube -15 Minute Sprint
- Design Quora -15 Minute Sprint
- Design Google Maps -15 Minute Sprint
- Design a Proximity Service/Yelp -15 Minute Sprint
- Design Uber -15 Minute Sprint
- Design Twitter -15 Minute Sprint
- Design a Newsfeed -15 Minute Sprint
- Design Instagram -15 Minute Sprint
- Design a URL Shortening Service/TinyURL -15 Minute Sprint
- Design a Web Crawler -15 Minute Sprint
- Design WhatsApp -15 Minute Sprint
- Design Typeahead Suggestion -15 Minute Sprint
- Design a Collaborative Document Editing Service/Google Docs
Concluding Remarks
- Conclusion
Get hands-on with real-world system design challenges.
Learn how to design scalable, reliable systems through guided lessons, practical exercises, and proven interview strategies.