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System Design & Distributed Systems

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Curated Certification CSE07

Learn the abstractions, failure modes, scalability patterns and tradeoffs behind reliable large-scale software systems.

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Core Course Stack

1. 6.033 Computer System Engineering

2. 6.5840 Distributed Systems - Spring 2026

3. The Amazon Builders' Library

4. Challenges with Distributed Systems

5. System Design Primer

6. Azure Application Architecture Fundamentals

7. Microservices Design Patterns

8. Site Reliability Engineering books

Hands-On Mastery Capstone

Design a scalable service under explicit latency, availability, consistency and cost constraints. Implement a thin prototype for one critical path and run at least one failure or load experiment.

Proof Rubric

  • requirements
  • architecture alternatives
  • data/consistency model
  • API/event flows
  • failure-mode analysis
  • capacity estimate
  • prototype
  • decision memo