Curriculum

The mental models everything else is built on.

How bytes actually travel between machines.

Storage engines, indexing, transactions and replication.

Making the hot path fast without lying to your users.

Coordinating machines that fail independently.

Queues, brokers and asynchronous architectures.

How to structure code so it survives growth.

Designing for the failures that will happen.

Protecting data, identity and the perimeter.

Knowing what your system is doing in production.

Architecting the client the same way you architect the server.

Not System Design — building the shared UI language of a product.

Latency, throughput and how to plan for growth.

Back-of-the-envelope math for interviews and capacity.

Turning knowledge into a structured interview performance.