Think Software Learning

This course is one of the best system design courses online and highly recommend to purchase. By going through the course, reader will have a deeper understanding on how a large scale system works. How to break the system into modelized components, and how to make each component scalable. It is not only good for interview preparation, but also a learning course for developers to grow and apply the learned knowledge in work. For each topic, the course provides all the necessary functional requirements, non-functional requirements, required APIs, required Services and detailed Components. The course discuss the Pros and Cons of different design options, and provides scalable solutions with unique insights, that we cannot see from other online courses. We can see that the Author is a very experienced system architect, and he is sharing his knowledge and experiences to us. Thumbs up!

This course is one of the best system design courses available today. It's a lot better than some of the most popular courses (hint: G) simply because it covers the topics in much greater details, discussing the pros and cons of each approach which is exactly what the interviewers expect. It helped me solidify my knowledge on different system components: micro-services, global cache, DBs, pubsub systems, distributed queues, gateway service etc Because of this, the course is not only helpful for interview preparation, but is also beneficial in my day to day tech job It helps build a solid foundation for system design. Waiting to see more chapters and mocks

The course really covers the topics in a lot of detail which is hard to find in other courses. I have bought Grokking and System Experts in the past but those courses are really shallow when compared with this course. The author clearly has deep knowledge of distributed systems and great experience in designing distributed systems. I am very grateful for sharing all this knowledge with me. This course really goes deep in designing data models, sharding schemes, secondary indexes and discusses the pros and cons of different approaches. At the same time, the chapters are written in such a way to provide a deep understanding of various important concepts. And then the detailed mock system design interviews with in-depth analysis and feedback from the author as an expert interviewer is a gem and unique attribute of this course.

There were times when you could take spend some time and be ready for system design interviews. However its no longer the case. Market is very competitive and you need solid background in system design. This course is in the right direction. It starts with basic concept and then expand it so that concepts sticks in mind. Even though you are not planning to take interview , i will still recommend this course because of its in depth coverage. I will highly recommend to any one who wants to level up their system design skills.

The content is very good and one will feel very deep learning. In each topic focus is given to DB schema, sharding and related technology which gives users very detailed idea of system design. But there is one thing that can made this whole course more useful or great is to include tutorial on single topics like Sharding, Load balancing, local/global index etc. (though link is provided but not that explanatory). When a reader have idea of all these ideas it become very easy and enjoyable to learn how system is designed. Thanks for all this great stuff and efforts. Waiting for more topics :) Thanks again...

Bought this last week. Read through 5 chapters and they go in detail. In actual interview, we would not be asked surface level knowledge. More of which option is better, how to share data base, pros and cons of various options are expected. Course goes in detail on these. Can’t wait to see more chapters and thanks to author for providing this.

Thanks for this course, I am going through it, it is so detailed and covers a lot of things and answers so many of the gaps I had. I am looking forward to seeing more content being added. This so worth compared to all the other alternatives.

I liked the general approach. A definitely beneficial course

It covers many "levels"

good

good system design course