System Design for Beginners
An in-depth, self-paced, and on-demand course that for early engineers to become great at designing scalable, available, and extensible systems at scale.
If you are SDE-2, SDE-3, and above and already know system design, but want to take your skills to the next level, do check out my live cohort-based System Design Masterclass course.
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₹19,999
inclusive of all the taxes
YOU'LL GET
✔ Watch and learn at your own pace
✔ 35 videos covering the curriculum
✔ 200+ doubts answered through text and videos
✔ Lifetime access to all course videos and doubts
✔ Language of communication will be strictly english
✔ Lifetime access to recordings of all doubt resolutions
✔ 3 days no-questions-asked refund policy
✔ Bi-weekly doubt solving - Wednesday 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm IST
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The Course
This is a beginner-friendly self-paced course on system design aimed at providing an exclusive and crisp introduction to building systems. The program will cover most of the topics under System Design and Software Architecture from scratch assuming no prior knowledge.
Course curriculum
Introduction
Introduction to System Design
- What is system design? 9 mins
- How to approach System Design? 17 mins
- How to understand that you have built a good system? 9 mins
Databases
All Things Databases
- Relational databases 20 mins
- Database Isolation Levels 19 mins
- Scaling Databases 18 mins
- Sharding and Partitioning 16 mins
- Non-relational Databases 15 mins
- Picking the right database 13 mins
Caching
All Things Caching
- Understanding Caching 12 mins
- Populating and Scaling Caches 11 mins
- Caching at different levels of architecture 19 mins
Asynchronous Systems
Asynchronous Processing
- Message Queues 16 mins
- Message Streams and Kafka Essentials 23 mins
- Real-time PubSub 6 mins
Resiliency
Designing for Resiliency
- Load Balancers 16 mins
- Circuit Breakers 13 mins
- Data Redundancy and Recovery 9 mins
- Leader Election for auto-recovery 8 mins
Essentials
Essentials at Scale
- Bloom Filters 21 mins
- Consistent Hashing 27 mins
- Client-server and Communication Protocols 22 mins
- Blob Storage and S3 16 mins
- Introduction to Big Data 17 mins
Consumer Facing
Designing Consumer Systems
- Designing e-Commerce Product Listing 20 mins
- Designing Tinder Feed 32 mins
- Designing and Scaling Notifications 38 mins
- Designing Twitter Trends 30 mins
Common Utilities
Designing Utilities
- Designing URL Shortners 48 mins
- Designing API Rate Limiter 26 mins
- Designing Realtime Abuse Masker 22 mins
- Designing Web Crawler 54 mins
Critical Systems
Designing systems that matter
- Designing GitHub Gists 28 mins
- Designing Fraud Detection 25 mins
- Designing Recommendation Engine 37 mins
Program pre-requisites
The course operates at a beginner-level and hence does not assume any prior knowledge of system design. We would start with absolute basics and then scale up to build real-world systems in a very structured way. By the way, following are the pre-requisite for this course
- a basic understanding of CS fundamentals
- a Google account because I only support Sign-in with Google :)
Wall of Love
Some formal/informal messages I received about this course.
Why should you join?
The primary objective of this program is to make you comfortable at building scalable, fault-tolerant, and reliable systems. But here is what you could reap out of it.
Design systems like a pro
The course will make you comfortable at designing any system, no matter how stringent the requirements are.
Know the unknowns
Learn some of the most interesting concepts, super-clever algorithms, and sophisticated architectures. You are bound to have mind-blown moments.
Upskill and level-up
Learn the designing paradigms and upskill yourself to accelerate your career growth and stand out.
The world is learning
People from all over the world have mastered System Design through my other System Design course meant for experienced engineers.
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ENGINEERS
ENGINEERS
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COUNTRIES
COUNTRIES
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DOUBTS
DOUBTS
Who took my courses?
Folks belonging to some of the best companies and high thriving startups have taken my intermediate system design course, the list includes the likes of
Teaching style
Here are some of the videos that will give you a peek into my teaching style how I teach and the depth I go into
Hey, I am Arpit
curious, tinkerer, and explorer
I am a software engineer and an engineering leader passionate about Databases, System Architecture, and Advanced Algorithms. I am also the creator and maintainer of DiceDB - an open source in-memory database.
In 2024, I took a leap of faith and co-founded Profile.fyi, which was later acquired by Mercor. Today, I am a Staff Engineer at Google, leading the Ads Forecasting. Before this, I had led the Dataproc India team, where we built a managed big data ecosystem for GCP customers, enabling them to handle data at scale seamlessly. Earlier in my journey, I was part of Amazon's Fast Data Team, where I worked on cold tiering of hot data and developed a seamless query interface across all storage tiers.
I held engineering leadership positions (both IC and management) at Unacademy, where I built, grew, and led Search, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams, and Data Engineering teams. I hold a total of 10+ years of experience in scaling backend services, taking products and teams from 0 to 1, and beyond.
I keep diving deep into engineering details and share my learnings by across my socials and videos on YouTube.
What people say about my courses?
Some testimonials from the people who recently took my courses.
Nityananda Gohain
One thing I can guarantee that after this course you can read any kind of system design book/blog with confidence and you will be able to relate to Arpits classes in someway or the other, also Arpit designed the course in such a way that you will be able to relate to previous classes and bring out patters in solving problems. My best investment ever :)
Tejas Agrawal
Had a super fun in learning how to learn and think system design. I am already using Arpit's teachings at my work, and I don't think anything more needs to be said.
Rohan Chougule
It's easy to throw jargons and assume that a system can be built. But then keeping things simple and starting from the basics, the approach to be taken, taking baby steps, and then heading towards a direction is indeed best taught by Arpit. Plus, his enthusiasm!
Sai Subramanyam Chittilla
Arpit is a passionate individual who teaches one of best system design course, his explanation comes from real implementation and exposure to the problem. He makes sure that individuals develop critical thinking when approaching system design.
I would highly recommend his course for any one who tries to build systems to scale.
Frequently asked questions
You can always drop me an email at arpit.masterclass@gmail.com for other questions.
What will be the language of communication and teaching?
The entire course is taught in english and all doubt solving sessions will be conducted in english.
Is this a cohort based course?
No. This is a recorded self-paced course with bi-weekly doubt solving sessions with me.
How is this course different than your system design masterclass?
Masterclass and Beginner course are mutually exclusive. Beginner course is for absolute beginners and starts things from scratch. Masterclass assumes you have some understanding of systems and we take it forward from there. There will be very minimal overlaps in the topics I cover in the two courses. In general, if you have some understanding of systems and have watched existing system design videos, go for the masterclass. If you want to start from absolute scratch then opt for beginner one.
Is this course right for me?
This course is for any engineer who wants to get started with System Design. If you are a college student or a working professional wanting to start with System Design, this course is for you.
Is there a limit to number of doubt solving sessions I can attend?
No. But the discussion will be strictly related to topics discussed and covered in the course.
Will you be giving teaching for the entire duration?
Yes. I will be teaching the entire course.
Will the course cover LLD?
No. The course is focussed on High Level Design only.
Will we also implement and see the systems in action?
It is not possible to implement every system; it is recommended that you self-implement the system and understand the low-level details. The course will definitely cover systems from every aspect.
Will there be a recording available for future reference?
Yes. You will have lifetime access to the recordings of the course.
Is there a refund policy?
3 days no-questions-asked refund window from the date of course purchase (11:59:59 pm on the 3rd day from the date of purchase). To get a refund, you need to write to me at arpit.masterclass@gmail.com.
Can I share my learnings, resources on social media?
No. I hold complete right to cut-off the access to any course material if I find you sharing course material, learning, videos, and notes on social platforms or the internet.
Will you be the only one teaching this course?
The entire course will be conducted by me, Arpit Bhayani, no external TAs, mentors, etc. You will get to learn everything from the horse's mouth.
What are the programming pre-requisites?
There are no programming pre-requisites, but having a basic idea is always better.
How is this course different from your other system design course?
My System Design Masterclass is an intermediate-level course and hence assumes you know basic system design. This course assumes nothing and will ramp you up on everything you should know about it.
If I have already watched System Design videos on YouTube, is this course still helpful?
Yes. The kind of depth which is touched in this System Design is unmatched. Even if you have watched all the System Design videos out there, you will still have moments that will blow your mind.
Will I be getting an invoice of Payment?
Yes. An invoice will be issued to you with all the legal and necessary details. This means your employer can choose to process this invoice and provide reimbursement.
When will I get the invoice?
You can download the invoice from the course portal. No invoice will be issued if you claim your refund. If you claim a refund, no invoice will be issued.
Will you issue a course completion certificate?
I do not generate the certificate for every candidate, but if you need it, just drop me a message, and I will issue one right away.
Can I use my Credit Card or avail EMI to make the payment?
Yes, we support Credit Card, Debit Card, UPI, and Credit Card based EMIs having a duration of 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, and 24 months as offered by Razorpay.
Can I share the account with multiple people?
I track the browsers and devices from which the course is being accessed and if I fnd anything suspicious, I hold the complete right to revoke the access of the course and not offer any refund.