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

Load balancing, reverse proxies, rate limiting, and failover topologies for 99.999% uptime.

Sharding, consistent hashing, replication lag, CAP theorem trade-offs, and consensus protocols.

Write-through vs write-back caching, cache stampede prevention, eviction policies, and edge caching.

Circuit breakers, bulkhead patterns, distributed tracing, and chaos engineering testing.

Staff Engineer Track • 8 Weeks

Design systems capable of scaling to hundreds of millions of requests. Master trade-offs in consistency, latency, and operational cost.

Architectural Pillars

Load balancing, reverse proxies, rate limiting, and failover topologies for 99.999% uptime.

Sharding, consistent hashing, replication lag, CAP theorem trade-offs, and consensus protocols.

Write-through vs write-back caching, cache stampede prevention, eviction policies, and edge caching.

Circuit breakers, bulkhead patterns, distributed tracing, and chaos engineering testing.