System Design Course for Backend Engineers: Deployment Patterns
Scaling fundamentals, caching, database scaling, reliability patterns, and deployment strategies — with two full worked system-design walkthroughs.
About this course
Practical, correct mental models for system design interviews and real production systems: back-of-envelope estimation, caching strategies, database scaling, asynchronous processing, circuit breakers and retries with jitter, blue-green/canary deployments, and observability as a design input — closing with two full worked system-design case studies. Includes interactive simulators.
Try the first lesson free
Read the opening of the course in full, no account needed.
Course index
- The system design interview mental model
- Scaling fundamentals
- Caching strategies in depth
- Database scaling
- Asynchronous processing and queues
- API gateways, rate limiting, and reverse proxies
- Content delivery and the edge
- Reliability patterns
- Deployment patterns
- Observability as a design input
- Two worked system-design walkthroughs
Ends with a final quiz. Score 70% or better and you can download a completion certificate in your own name — shareable on LinkedIn and verifiable by its certificate code.