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Master the Coding Interview: System Design + Architecture

Go from Junior to a trusted Senior Engineer by learning how to think like a Senior Engineer. This course gives you the step-by-step guide to understanding technologies, decisions, and trade-offs required to confidently design the right system to accomplish any task or project thrown your way.

40 Days

Average time students take to complete this course.

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Taught by: Yihua Zhang
Last updated: March 2024

Course overview

We guarantee you that this is the best System Design course that you can find. If you're serious about advancing your career and becoming a Senior Software Engineer or Developer at your dream company, then you're in the right place.

What you'll learn

  • Insider tips & tricks from a Senior Engineer that has worked for big tech companies and has actually been in charge of system design
  • Learn how to think like a Senior Software Engineer
  • A mental framework to analyze your work through the lens of designing systems
  • Learn how to evaluate different components and technologies in web applications
  • Become a better problem solver and answer any system design questions companies throw at you
  • Use the right system design & architecture to arrive at the optimal solution to any problem
  • Learn the information needed to ace the system design interview at top tech companies
  • Learn exactly what is needed to build exceptional products and applications

Most of the work juniors do is low level coding. They execute the design for a small piece of the system - a system that the senior has already evaluated and designed.

Juniors will often do this work without much thought of the larger system that they're a part of, without understanding the why of their work.

Don't get us wrong, it's certainly important work but... most devs don't want to be a junior forever.

That's why we created this course. To help you think like & become a Senior Software Engineer or Senior Developer.

To do that you need to:

  • understand the technologies and components that go into designing a system
  • understand the considerations, trade-offs, and tough decisions that need to be made when building an application.

Ultimately this deeper understanding is what will allow you to use the right tools, with the right systems, to accomplish the job efficiently and effectively.

That's why this course is different from most other system design courses. The key skill you'll gain from taking this course is a mental framework to see the bigger picture and how to execute on it.

This course is part of our Master the Coding Interview series, where we give you the step-by-step guide to think like a Big Tech engineer or developer.

And the results speak for themselves.

Graduates of Zero To Mastery are now working at Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Uber, Facebook, Shopify + other top tech companies.

This can be you.

By enrolling today, you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community classroom to learn alongside thousands of students, alumni, mentors, TAs and Instructors.

Most importantly, you will learn from an industry expert (Yihua) that has actual real-world experience working for big tech companies (and aced their interviews).

Throughout this course, you will learn a problem solving framework so that you can deeply learn System Design and be prepared for any interview.

What's the bottom line?

Your instructor (Yihua) is a Senior Software Engineer who has worked and managed teams of engineers. He has made the tough calls when designing systems for enterprise-level web applications and products.

Plus he has been on both sides of system design interviews, both as an interviewee as well as the interviewer, so he knows what companies are looking for when hiring.

The primary goal of this course is to help you become a Senior Software Engineer and land your dream job that you never thought was possible.

But by the end, you'll also become a better problem solver and better programmer, which will help you level-up faster throughout your entire career.

Let's make it happen!

When's the best time to get started? Today!

There's never a bad time to learn in-demand skills. But the sooner, the better. So take your first step to landing your dream job today by joining the ZTM Academy. You'll have a clear roadmap to developing the skills to build your own projects, ace your coding interviews, get hired, and advance your career.

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Course curriculum

To make sure this course is a good fit for you, you can start learning System Design for free right now by clicking any of the PREVIEW links below.

Introduction

4 lectures

Master the Coding Interview: System Design + Architecture1:47

PREVIEW

Course Introduction5:27

PREVIEW

Exercise: Meet Your Classmates and Instructor

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How-to's: Speed up videos, Downloading videos, Subtitles

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Web Architecture 101

14 lectures

Browsers7:18

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DNS7:03

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Web Servers10:43

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Load Balancer (Part 1)9:50

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Load Balancer (Part 2)8:53

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Databases7:58

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Caching6:06

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Jobs - Servers7:32

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Jobs - Queues8:55

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Services (Part 1)4:05

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Services (Part 2)11:51

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Data5:06

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Cloud Storage CDN7:44

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Unlimited Updates

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System Design 101

16 lectures

System Design Reminder4:19

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Principles of System Design - Availability8:54

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Principles of System Design - Reliability3:26

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Networking - OSI & TCP/IP9:53

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TCP IP7:31

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TCP Explained9:53

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UDP3:41

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Proxies6:43

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Exercise: Imposter Syndrome2:55

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Load Balancing Strategies8:16

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Server Clustering5:36

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Databases Intro6:35

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CAP Theorem CP9:12

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CAP Theorem AP5:36

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ACID and BASE Properties for Database Selection10:56

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What's Next?3:24

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Where To Go From Here?

6 lectures

Thank You!1:17

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Review This Course!

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Become An Alumni

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Learning Guideline

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LinkedIn Endorsements

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Coding Challenges

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Meet your instructor

Your instructor isn't just an expert with years of real-world professional experience. He has been in your shoes. He makes learning fun. He makes complex topics feel simple. He will motivate you. He will push you. And he will go above and beyond to help you succeed.

Yihua Zhang

Hi, I'm Yihua Zhang!

Yihua, an instructor of Zero To Mastery Academy, has been teaching students how to code for over a decade and has worked as a Senior Software Developer for numerous years for some of the largest tech companies in the world.

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Yihua Zhang

Senior Software Developer

Frequently asked questions

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

  • This course is designed for Junior Developers / Engineers that want to accelerate their career and take the next step to become a Senior Developer / Engineer. General coding knowledge is therefore required.

Who is this course for?

  • You want to work as a Senior Software Engineer or Senior Software Developer at a tech company earning $150K+
  • Any Engineer, Developer, or Programmer who wants to have the knowledge needed to ace the technical interviews at big tech companies
  • Anyone interested in improving their whiteboard coding skills
  • Anyone who wants to become a better Developer or Engineer
  • Anyone who wants to improve their decision-making and problem solving skills
  • Self-taught programmers without a Computer Science degree
  • Those with the ambition to learn and put in the effort required to become a Senior Software Developer / Engineer. We will make it achievable for you!

Do you provide a certificate of completion?

We definitely do and they are quite nice. You will also be able to add Zero To Mastery Academy to the education section of your LinkedIn profile as well.

Are there subtitles?

Yes! We have high quality subtitles in 11 different languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Romanian, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Indonesian, and Japanese.

You can even adjust the text size, color, background and more so that the subtitles are perfect just for you!

Still have more questions about the Academy?

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