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A repeatable 45-minute framework for FAANG system design interviews covering requirements gathering, capacity estimation, high-level architecture, component deep dive, and trade-off discussion. Includes a vocabulary reference and a complete Twitter design walkthrough.
Learn how to use the Node.js cluster module to scale HTTP servers across all CPU cores, manage worker lifecycle, and implement graceful restarts with TypeScript. For backend engineers maximizing single-server throughput.
Master CockroachDB multi-region deployments: table localities, follower reads, transaction retries, zone configs, and survivability goals.
Implement CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) to scale reads independently from writes. Learn command bus patterns, query bus patterns, eventual consistency, projections, CQRS without event sourcing, testing strategies, and when the complexity is justified.
Build federated GraphQL APIs across microservices. Learn Apollo Federation architecture, @key and @external directives, entity resolution, router configuration, performance with DataLoader, query planning, cost limits, and observability.
Comprehensive architecture for production LLM systems covering request pipelines, async patterns, cost/latency optimization, multi-tenancy, observability, and scaling to 10K concurrent users.