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Jordan Has No Life: Systems Design Concepts Series
Deep, whiteboard-style dives into replication, consensus and stream processing.
By Jordan · Jordan Has No Life · Added 2026-08-03
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Overview before you open it
Hey gigachads, welcome to the channel - I was doing a bunch of my own systems design studying using YouTube and other online resources and it seems most of them kinda suck, I'm hoping to change that. But don't just listen to me, listen to my viewers: "Jordan is not just a great system designer and talented…
A talk or video. Watch it with a pause button handy: it is easiest to follow once you know the basic vocabulary.
- Who it suits
- You are comfortable with distributed-systems trade-offs and want depth.
- From
- Jordan Has No Life: see more from them
- Design areas it touches
- Replication, consistency and consensusMessaging and event streaming
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Study it, do not just read it
Before
Before you open it, spend two minutes sketching how you would build this yourself. Write down the biggest risk you can see.
While you read
- Which number or limit forced their main decision?
- What did they try first, and why did it stop working?
- What did they choose not to build?
After
- What would break first if traffic grew tenfold?
- What did they trade away to get what they wanted?
- Explain the design in three sentences, without looking.
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