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Staff Engineer Track • 8 Weeks
System Design & Distributed Architecture
Design systems capable of scaling to hundreds of millions of requests. Master trade-offs in consistency, latency, and operational cost.
Architectural Pillars
From Monolith to Planetary Scale
High-Availability Architecture
Load balancing, reverse proxies, rate limiting, and failover topologies for 99.999% uptime.
Distributed Data & Partitioning
Sharding, consistent hashing, replication lag, CAP theorem trade-offs, and consensus protocols.
Caching & CDN Strategies
Write-through vs write-back caching, cache stampede prevention, eviction policies, and edge caching.
Resilience & Fault Tolerance
Circuit breakers, bulkhead patterns, distributed tracing, and chaos engineering testing.