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Consistency 65 Databases 40 Concurrency and storage 9 Messaging and events 6 Networking 5 Traffic and limits 5 Caching 4 Scaling and speed 2 Services and APIs 1
1 Start here: the basics No background needed. What the main ideas are and why they exist. 7 videos · 1 h 13 min 1.1 TCP vs. UDP in 12 minutes | Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 With Ex-Google SWE Beginner · 12 min · 13.2K views · 2023 How data moves reliably (or quickly) across a network. 1.2 Intro to ACID Database Transactions | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Google Software Engineer Beginner · 8 min · 45.5K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 1.3 Intro to Replication - Systems Design "Need to Knows" | Systems Design 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Beginner · 11 min · 24.1K views · 2023 Keeping copies of data on several machines and how they stay in step. 1.4 Leaderless Replication Introduction | Systems Design 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Beginner · 11 min · 20.8K views · 2023 Keeping copies of data on several machines and how they stay in step. 1.5 Replication Summarized in 9 Minutes | Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Beginner · 9 min · 16.5K views · 2023 Keeping copies of data on several machines and how they stay in step. 1.6 Introduction to Partitioning | Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Beginner · 11 min · 21.9K views · 2023 Splitting data across machines and choosing how to split it. 1.7 Introduction to Distributed Caching - Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Beginner · 11 min · 21.7K views · 2023 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 2 The building blocks Caches, queues, databases, load balancers: the parts every design is made of. 60 videos · 13 h 15 min 2.1 Google SWE teaches systems design | EP46: Certificate Transparency (SSL/TLS) Intermediate · 13 min · 2.9K views · 2022 How web requests and responses travel between a browser and a server. 2.2 Content Delivery Networks - You Need Them | Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 8 min · 16.3K views · 2023 How data moves reliably (or quickly) across a network. 2.3 Google SWE teaches systems design | EP31: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) Intermediate · 11 min · 3.7K views · 2022 How data moves reliably (or quickly) across a network. 2.4 Google SWE teaches systems design | EP45: TCP versus UDP Intermediate · 14 min · 3.1K views · 2022 How data moves reliably (or quickly) across a network. 2.5 27: High Throughput Stock Exchange | Systems Design Interview Questions With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 21 min · 50K views · 2024 The numbers behind speed: what is fast, what is slow, and how to reason about it. 2.6 Load Balancing - The Right Way To Do It | Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 10 min · 24.8K views · 2023 How traffic is spread across servers so no single one is overloaded. 2.7 Google SWE teaches systems design | EP33: Load Balancing Intermediate · 10 min · 3.9K views · 2022 How traffic is spread across servers so no single one is overloaded. 2.8 29: Amazon Payment Gateway | Systems Design Interview Questions With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 27 min · 62.5K views · 2024 The middle layers that sit in front of your servers and what each one is for. 2.9 Redis vs. Memcached - Who Wins? | Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 8 min · 36.5K views · 2023 Keeping hot data close so reads are fast, and the cost of stale data. 2.10 Cache Evictions: Don't Mess Them Up | Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 8 min · 9.9K views · 2023 Keeping hot data close so reads are fast, and the cost of stale data. Show all 60 3 Design whole systems (HLD) Put the blocks together for a real product, step by step. 9 videos · 3 h 13 min 3.1 7: Design a Rate Limiter | Systems Design Interview Questions With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 27 min · 86.7K views · 2024 Designing Rate Limiter: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 3.2 12: Design Google Docs/Real Time Text Editor | Systems Design Interview Questions With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 47 min · 62K views · 2024 Designing Interview Questions With Ex: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 3.3 Design a URL Shortener (TinyURL, Bit.ly) | Systems Design Questions 3.0 With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 18 min · 59.6K views · 2025 Designing URL Shortener: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 3.4 11: Design TicketMaster/StubHub | Systems Design Interview Questions With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 37 min · 37.6K views · 2024 Designing Interview Questions With Ex: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 3.5 Design a Notification Service (OneSignal) | Systems Design Questions 3.0 With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 12 min · 16.3K views · 2025 Designing Notification Service: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 3.6 Design Twitter Post Search | Systems Design Questions 3.0 With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 12 min · 15.8K views · 2025 Designing Twitter Post Search: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 3.7 Design Dropbox/Google Drive | Systems Design Questions 3.0 With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 15 min · 12.8K views · 2025 Designing Questions 3.0 With Ex: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 3.8 Design Uber/Lyft (Part 1) | Systems Design Questions 3.0 With Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 13 min · 10.9K views · 2025 Designing Questions 3.0 With Ex: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 3.9 Google SWE teaches systems design | EP21: Hadoop File System Design Intermediate · 12 min · 5.8K views · 2022 How a computer stores data and runs programs underneath your design. 4 Low-level design (LLD) Classes, patterns and clean code inside one service. 6 videos · 1 h 39 min 4.1 TicTacToe | Google Gigachad SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 1 Intermediate · 12 min · 42.7K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 4.2 Elevator System | Google SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 3 Intermediate · 21 min · 28.6K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 4.3 Design A Parking Garage | Google SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 4 Intermediate · 16 min · 21.8K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 4.4 Design A Limit Order Book | Google SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 5 Intermediate · 22 min · 20.4K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 4.5 Cache | Google SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 2 Intermediate · 15 min · 13.4K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 4.6 Design An Air Traffic Controller | Google SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 6 Intermediate · 13 min · 5.9K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 5 Go deeper Internals, trade-offs and how large systems really behave. 67 videos · 27 h 41 min 5.1 Low Latency Stock Exchange Design Deep Dive with Google SWE! | Systems Design Interview Question 15 Advanced · 22 min · 39.6K views · 2022 The numbers behind speed: what is fast, what is slow, and how to reason about it. 5.2 LSM Tree + SSTable Database Indexes | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Google Software Engineer Advanced · 16 min · 84.9K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 5.3 How do B-Tree Indexes work? | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Google Software Engineer Advanced · 9 min · 63K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 5.4 Database Internals: Two Phase Locking | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 11 min · 30K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 5.5 Linearizable Databases | Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 13 min · 18K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 5.6 Design Uber/Lyft Location Index (Pt 2, Deep Dives) | Systems Design Questions 3.0 With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 9 min · 5.9K views · 2025 Designing Questions 3.0 With Ex: what it must do, the main parts, and the trade-offs. 5.7 Rate Limiter Design Deep Dive with Google SWE! | Systems Design Interview Question 7 Advanced · 22 min · 13.9K views · 2022 Protecting a service from overload and making retries safe. 5.8 Durable Execution (Temporal/Inngest) | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 19 min · 37.6K views · 2026 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 5.9 Distributed Job Scheduler Design Deep Dive with Google SWE! | Systems Design Interview Question 25 Advanced · 20 min · 36.8K views · 2022 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 5.10 Two Phase Commit - Distributed Transactions | Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 8 min · 34.8K views · 2023 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 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Deep Dives A series from the creator, in the order they made it. 51 videos · 22 h 58 min 1 What is Apache Iggy (vs. Kafka)? | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 15 min · 9.3K views · 2026 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 2 Durable Execution (Temporal/Inngest) | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 19 min · 37.6K views · 2026 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 3 Introduction To Vector Search | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 22 min · 8.1K views · 2026 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 4 Apache DataFusion Comet In 15 Minutes | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 20 min · 2.5K views · 2026 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 5 Apache Fluss In 15 Minutes | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 19 min · 3.9K views · 2026 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 6 Mooncake - Iceberg For Streaming Writes! | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 20 min · 2.9K views · 2026 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 7 Amazon S3 (Object Stores) - In Practice | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 18 min · 22.1K views · 2025 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 8 Redis - In Practice | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 22 min · 24.3K views · 2025 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 9 PostgreSQL Scaling - Citus | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 14 min · 8.1K views · 2025 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. 10 WarpStream - Kafka on a Budget! | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 21 min · 3.6K views · 2025 How many machines agree on one answer, even when some fail. Show all 51 Systems Design 2.0 A series from the creator, in the order they made it. 37 videos · 6 h 23 min 1 Database Indexes: What do they do? | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Google Software Engineer Intermediate · 11 min · 74.7K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 2 How do Hash Indexes work? | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Google Software Engineer Intermediate · 14 min · 69.6K views · 2023 Clever data structures that make big lookups cheap. 3 How do B-Tree Indexes work? | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Google Software Engineer Advanced · 9 min · 63K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 4 LSM Tree + SSTable Database Indexes | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Google Software Engineer Advanced · 16 min · 84.9K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 5 Indexes Concluded | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Google Software Engineer Intermediate · 7 min · 33.3K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 6 Intro to ACID Database Transactions | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Google Software Engineer Beginner · 8 min · 45.5K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 7 Achieving ACID: Serial Execution | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Google Software Engineer Intermediate · 6 min · 23.5K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 8 Database Internals: Two Phase Locking | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Advanced · 11 min · 30K views · 2023 How databases store and find data, and what guarantees they give. 9 Column Oriented Storage (with Parquet!) | Systems Design Interview: 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Intermediate · 13 min · 26.9K views · 2023 How a computer stores data and runs programs underneath your design. 10 Intro to Replication - Systems Design "Need to Knows" | Systems Design 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE Beginner · 11 min · 24.1K views · 2023 Keeping copies of data on several machines and how they stay in step. Show all 37 Low Level Design A series from the creator, in the order they made it. 6 videos · 1 h 39 min 1 TicTacToe | Google Gigachad SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 1 Intermediate · 12 min · 42.7K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 2 Cache | Google SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 2 Intermediate · 15 min · 13.4K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 3 Elevator System | Google SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 3 Intermediate · 21 min · 28.6K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 4 Design A Parking Garage | Google SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 4 Intermediate · 16 min · 21.8K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 5 Design A Limit Order Book | Google SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 5 Intermediate · 22 min · 20.4K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. 6 Design An Air Traffic Controller | Google SWE Teaches Low Level Design Episode 6 Intermediate · 13 min · 5.9K views · 2022 Designing the classes and patterns inside one service, so the code stays easy to change. Latest uploads Accelerated Paimon Table Maintenance in StreamFusion! | Personal Projects With Ex-Google SWE, Ep 47 2.9K views · 6 days ago Accelerated Iceberg Table Maintenance in StreamFusion! | Personal Projects With Ex-Google SWE, Ep 46 3.2K views · 13 days ago Apache Doris in StreamFusion! | Personal Projects With Ex-Google SWE, Ep 45 3.5K views · 20 days ago Iceberg in StreamFusion! | Personal Projects With Ex-Google SWE, Ep 44 3.8K views · 27 days ago Fluss in StreamFusion! | Personal Projects With Ex-Google SWE, Ep 43 6.6K views · 1 month ago Supporting Flink 1.18 in StreamFusion! | Personal Projects With Ex-Google SWE, Ep 42 5K views · 1 month ago
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Ew wtf why are you on windows and why are you using chrome dude
@xyz62-t5j · 2 likes
on Fluss in StreamFusion! | Personal Projects With Ex-Google SWE, Ep 43
Bro is doing the using windows without puking challenge
@xyz62-t5j · 1 likes
on Iceberg in StreamFusion! | Personal Projects With Ex-Google SWE, Ep 44
Que gusto verte por aqui :3 , ajajajjaja vengo del ultimo video y la resaca parece no haber salido muy bien ajjajajajaj
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on What is Apache Iggy (vs. Kafka)? | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE
Holaaaa, como estás, como siempre me alegras el rato ajajaja
@Deus-lo-Vuilt · 1 likes
on Fluss in StreamFusion! | Personal Projects With Ex-Google SWE, Ep 43
Happy Saturday Jordan, loving the streamfusion videos
@dr.mikelitoris · 1 likes
on Iceberg in StreamFusion! | Personal Projects With Ex-Google SWE, Ep 44
From my knowledge, vsr doesn't do election but all nodes know which is the next leader after current one is dead. Correct me if I'm wrong
@piukul · 1 likes
on What is Apache Iggy (vs. Kafka)? | Distributed Systems Deep Dives With Ex-Google SWE
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