System Design (beta)

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When you are given a new project to build, how do you determine which programming language to use, which framework/database to use, which micro-services to design, and how to prepare these apps in advance for scalability?

How do you also manage these servers/services in the cloud so that the cloud can automatically scale up/down the number of services launched to handle your incoming traffic?

This module was built with the goal of helping engineers determine how to architect a system as well as give guidance on how to answer "how would you architect a system that does X, Y, Z?' asked during a technical interview. This knowledge could also be used to convince a potential client how you are well equipped to tackle on the project.

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Overview

<p>A potential client or an interviewer asks you how you would build a complex web application that has features A, B, C, and what tools/languages you would use to build this project.</p> <p>How woul ...
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HTTP request and response (Ikea Store Analogy)

<p>Before you know how to design a scalable web application, we must first make sure we understand how a web server works.</p> <figure><iframe class="ql-video" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zj ...
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Scaling a web server

<p>Now, let's talk about how you could go about to scale your web application.</p> <figure><iframe class="ql-video" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FhZlCIxlF_c?showinfo=0"></iframe></figure> <p ...
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Why there are so many technologies for web

<p>In the past, I have tried to teach people why there are so many technologies for web. As a teacher, I have been wrestling with what a good analogy to explain this would be as well as how one shoul ...
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System Architecture for Web Applications

<p>Now that you've learned some of the foundational knowledge for how a web server workes and how to scale a single web server/application, let's now go higher level.</p> <figure><iframe class="ql-vi ...
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Challenge 1: Designing an image resize API

<p>You decide to create an API for other developers to use where you can resize images for them.</p> <p>Developers would pass to your API the url of their image (hosted somewhere on the internet by t ...
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Challenge 2: Drawing App

<p>Please do an in-depth dive into these 5 questions (for each of the "service" you would create) and provide your thoughtful response below.</p>
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Challenge 3: Hacker Hero

<p>If you were asked to build a project like Hacker Hero from scratch, how would you go about building this?</p> <h2>Key Features</h2> <ol><li>Admins can create new learning modules and put title, s ...

Overview

HTTP request and response (Ikea Store Analogy)

Scaling a web server

Why there are so many technologies for web

System Architecture for Web Applications

Challenge 1: Designing an image resize API

Challenge 2: Drawing App

Challenge 3: Hacker Hero

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