System Design Masterclass

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this masterclass, you'll learn how to design large-scale systems used by top companies like Instagram, WhatsApp, and YouTube. You'll master system design principles, including defining requirements, estimating capacity, and creating scalable, reliable architectures. Through case studies and hands-on exercises, you'll develop a repeatable framework for approaching system design challenges, from API design to database selection. You'll explore how to estimate storage, memory, throughput, and bandwidth, and design APIs for key actions like posting, liking, and messaging. The course will guide you through real-world scenarios, helping you make critical design decisions and ensuring your solutions are scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient. This course is ideal for experienced engineers, system architects, or developers with strong understanding of software architecture, and familiarity with cloud computing and databases. By the end, you’ll be prepared to confidently design high-traffic, reliable systems and tackle system design interviews.