Course · 13 lessons ~32 hr Intermediate

System Design Methodology

System Design Methodology covers: The System Design Method, Back-of-the-Envelope Estimation, High-Level Architecture and API Design, Data Modeling and Scaling Decisions, The Trade-off Framework and the Rails Scaling Lens. Year 3, Quarter 10. Includes 12 exercises and 3 projects.

reading · we frame, you read MIT or the canonical taught · we author, no canonical fits ↺ spirals back to earlier lessons
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13 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.