
System design interviews are one of the biggest reasons experienced developers get rejected by top companies.
Not because they lack technical skills — but because they were never taught how to think about architecture.
I spent 7 years building backend systems at scale and mentoring developers for system design interviews. This 2-volume series brings together the concepts, frameworks, examples, and interview techniques I teach — structured, simplified, and practical.
80 Pages · 20 Chapters
Build a strong foundation before you start designing complex systems.
You'll learn every major building block and concept you need for system design interviews:
Chapter 1: What Is System Design
Chapter 2: How the Internet Actually Works
Chapter 3: DNS — The Internet's Phonebook
Chapter 4: TCP vs UDP
Chapter 5: HTTP, HTTPS & TLS
Chapter 6: REST APIs
Chapter 7: Load Balancers
Chapter 8: CDN
Chapter 9: Caching
Chapter 10: API Gateway
Chapter 11: Proxy vs Reverse Proxy vs VPN
Chapter 12: Databases — SQL vs NoSQL
Chapter 13: Message Queues — Kafka & RabbitMQ
Chapter 14: WebSockets
Chapter 15: CAP Theorem
Chapter 16: Consistent Hashing
Chapter 17: Database Sharding
Chapter 18: Idempotency
Chapter 19: Rate Limiting
Chapter 20: Stateful vs Stateless
57 Pages · 16 Chapters
Now take the fundamentals and apply them to distributed system patterns and complete system designs — the way interviewers expect you to approach a system design problem.
Chapter 21: The Outbox Pattern
Chapter 22: The Saga Pattern
Chapter 23: CQRS
Chapter 24: Event Sourcing
Chapter 25: Circuit Breakers
Chapter 26: Design a URL Shortener
Chapter 27: Design a Chat System — WhatsApp
Chapter 28: Design a Food Delivery System — Zomato
Chapter 29: Design a Ride-Matching System — Uber
Chapter 30: Design a Notification System
Chapter 31: Design a Rate Limiter
Chapter 32: Design a Social Media Feed
Chapter 33: How to Approach Any System Design Question
Chapter 34: Common Mistakes Candidates Make
Chapter 35: System Design Cheat Sheets
Chapter 36: 50 Most Asked Questions with Hints
Each chapter is designed to make complex system design concepts easy to understand:
→ Simple explanations — no unnecessary jargon
→ Real-world examples — Netflix, Zomato, WhatsApp, Uber, and more
→ Technical diagrams — visualize how systems actually work
→ Interview Q&As — prepare for the follow-up questions interviewers ask
→ Practical design thinking — understand not just what to use, but why
137 Pages of system design content
36 Chapters covering fundamentals to advanced designs
160+ Interview Q&As
50+ Technical Diagrams
2 Complete PDF Books
Simple, easy-to-understand language
Real-world architectures and examples
Format: 2 PDF files
Delivery: Instant Download
Total: 137 pages · 36 chapters · 160+ interview Q&As · 50+ diagrams