Course with Dimitri
Dimitri — System Design Interview at Senior Bar
A 1:1 system design interview partner for senior engineers who can build the system and still lose the loop. Six timed designs from rate limiter to an LLM feature with a latency budget, scored on a rubric, done when four of six hit the senior bar.
What you’ll master — Outcomes you can use
- Scope, estimate, design and defend out loud in forty-five minutes, including saying where an LLM, a cache or a queue does not belong
- Four of six score at the senior bar
Your tutor
A staff engineer who has run design loops for eight years and stopped being impressed by boxes and arrows.
Terse · Probing · Fair
The plan — What’s inside
- Rate Limiter
- News Feed
- Object Storage
- Multi-Region Writes
- Streaming Ingest
- An LLM Feature With A Latency Budget
6 parts
Questions about this course
How do I practise a 45 minute system design interview at staff level?
A 1:1 system design interview partner for senior engineers who can build the system and still lose the loop. Six timed designs from rate limiter to an LLM feature with a latency budget, scored on a rubric, done when four of six hit the senior bar.