Systems End-to-End At-a-Glance
14+
Full Walkthroughs
25+
Fundamental Topics
10+
Hours of Content
1-2
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Fundamentals from the Ground Up
We teach you the fundamentals of system design from the ground up. You'll learn low-level principles in a way that makes it easy to see the big picture of even the most complex system.
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Have a context-aware AI-assistant on standby to help you as you study. Your assistant will be aware of the problem, solutions, your workspace code, any active errors, and more. Ask it anything!
40+ Exceptional Explanations
We offer a sizable amount of high-signal content. Our library took nearly a year to aggregate in-full.
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We are constantly editing, pruning, & expanding our content library. Each content item takes 4-8 hours to produce. We are constantly going to work to make the library better.
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Join our Discord to receive peer & instructor support. When you get stuck there is always someone to help you continue forward.
Exceptional Video Explanations
Challenging topics need clear, methodical, explanations. You have to do the actual math, you have to go deep into the why behind approaches.
This is why we take a ground-up approach to any concept we teach so it just “clicks” in our students’ minds.
We see every lesson as a conversation. Taking a student from beginner to advanced understanding incrementally.
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Table of Contents
Requirements
0:00
How Search Works
0:20
API: Accepting Search Queries
1:57
Database: Storing Site Metadata
2:37
Database Demands
4:00
Page BLOB Store
4:32
Database Sharding
4:58
Global Index
5:51
Text Index
6:14
The System Thus Far
6:50
Crawling
7:33
robots.txt Cache
8:47
Crawler Demands
9:05
The System So Far
10:12
URL Frontier: Priority
10:45
URL Frontier: Politeness
11:20
Naive URL Frontier
11:42
Multiple Queues
12:12
Solving for Politeness
13:16
URL Frontier: Recap
15:32
URL Frontier Demands
15:57
Full Design Review
17:05
Extensions
17:30
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