Backend engineering path

System Design Fundamentals

A practical starting point for reasoning about scalable, reliable backend systems before you tackle larger architecture interviews and production designs.

System Design Basics

Requirements, constraints, capacity, components and trade-offs.

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Rate Limiting

Protect APIs with fixed window, sliding window and token bucket strategies.

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Circuit Breakers

Stop cascading failures when dependencies become unhealthy.

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Caching Strategies

Use cache-aside, TTLs and invalidation with clear consistency trade-offs.

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Design Problems

A repeatable framework for APIs, services, queues, storage and scaling decisions.

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