System Design for Interviews

Learn system design by scaling an online shop, then designing WhatsApp, Instagram, Uber and a rate limiter. The first four videos are free.

Continue with Advanced System Design for deeper study of databases, distributed systems and research papers.

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Gaurav Sen

Ex Software Engineer @ Uber, Directi

4.66 (12325)
30288+ Students
Last updated on 10/2026

System Design for Interviews

4.66 (12325)
30288+ Students
Last updated on 10/2026

What will you learn?

Learn system design fundamentals: eventual consistency, routing, caching, etc.

Design large-scale distributed systems with microservices.

Convert requirements into high-level system designs.

Identify and address design tradeoffs and single points of failure.

Learn the internals of large-scale distributed systems like Facebook Memcached and Google Zanzibar.

Learn how an app is scaled from 1 to 1M users, using system design concepts.

Course Content

1 Video
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01:20 min

14 Videos
4 Free Previews

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1 Quiz

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4 Videos
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4 Videos

Meet Your Instructor

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Gaurav Sen

Ex Software Engineer @ Uber, Directi

Gaurav Sen is the founder of InterviewReady. He has expertise in distributed systems from working at Uber and Directi. He has also spoken about distributed systems at the University of Houston-Texas, IIT Gandhinagar, and BITS Hyderabad. Gaurav's YouTube channel on system design has over 500k followers.

Used By Engineers Worldwide

Helped me improve my engineering skills and think of the bigger picture. Maybe keep the pdfs of all chapters at the beginning?

Bhavya Ratra
Bhavya RatraSoftware Engineer at Airboxr

I like to revise the InterviewReady course every week. I maybe addicted now!

Himanshu Sawarkar
Himanshu SawarkarTechnical Lead at Infinite Computer Solutions

Overall, an informative course with interesting topics and in-depth explanation in a short amount of time.

Shalin Shah
Shalin ShahSoftware Engineer at Grab, Singapore

There is a good list of content that is easy to understand and well-explained.

Raj Kumar Maurya
Raj Kumar MauryaFull Stack Developer

The videos were really helpful to understand not just the basics but the complicated system design architectures also.

Devashish Nyati
Devashish NyatiSoftware Engineer at Google

Doing this course helped me increase my knowledge related to how systems really work and make them more efficient. With this course I cracked ServiceNow!

Varun Manchandani
Varun ManchandaniSoftware Engineer at ServiceNow

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