Scalable System Design
If you like applying Scalable System Design, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Scalable-System-Design Spec for a Streaming-Ingest Pipeline
Receive the current architecture (Kafka 3.6, Flink 1.18, ClickHouse 24.x), 4 weeks of production metrics (per-topic throughput, partition skew, Flink operator backpressure, Clic…
- Scalable System Design
- Kafka
- Flink
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Tame the P99 Latency Tail of a Real-Time Ad-Auction Service
Working from the four provided materials only, isolate and fix the latency tail of the bidder. Start with the representative auction-handler module ('bidder-module') as the code…
- Performance Optimization
- Ebpf
- Go
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