What is System Design

What is System Design

How apps grow from 100 users to millions, one piece at a time

In this video, we'll look at how an application grows from 100 to a million users, and what changes along the way. We'll cover servers, databases, load balancers, caching, CDNs, message queues, and the trade-offs involved in designing scalable systems.

You'll also learn what interviewers look for when asking system design questions.

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