System Design Masterclass: Shipping Real Features To Production
System design: It's a become a staple topic among software engineers for its prevalence in interviews. However, unlike data structures and algorithms, system design is actually something engineers have to do on the job, especially at senior levels and beyond.
In this course, you will learn:
- How tech leads at top companies like Big Tech design high-quality, scalable systems
- Common design patterns and things to look out for as a frontend engineer or anybody who's working more on the product side
- A good format you can use for your own technical design documents
- The process to follow to find the best overall engineering approach to a hard problem
- How to socialize your technical ideas to get buy-in
Grow past the memorization of fancy FAANG tech components and become an engineer who's capable of writing code that lasts.
Alex Chiou is a proven Silicon Valley engineer with 10 years of experience across top companies like PayPal, Meta, and Robinhood. As a tech lead at Instagram, he shipped multiple $100 million revenue ads products to over a billion users. He's also built several software projects at scale just for fun, shipping 3 Android side projects with 500k+ users and 30+ apps to Google Play with 4.5 million+ users combined.
This masterclass is super underrated. I made a modified version of the system design doc at my previous job and got really good feedback from the team. This is even useful for scoping out side projects. Still trying to fully internalize the lessons, but great value here.
I'd argue this is in the Top 5 video series @ Taro for sure.
It was great that actual system design was happening on real system with real expectations.
It would be great f we give more emphasis on overall approach and tradeoffs. 5 min is just too less time to cover that. Also it would be great to discuss about various data base options and tradeoffs for the same.
Overall the course looks pretty solid and helps in build understanding of how to think on multiple aspects when to ship a feature.
As a mid-level engineer that is taking on more responsibilities and writing design docs, this was super informative! Using a well-written example, this course really outlines what items to address in a design doc. This is a great reference for me to go back to and lean on when the need comes up.
