System Design Curriculum

Track 6: Load Balancing and Scaling

Scale applications horizontally, balance requests streams, and configure circuit breaker failovers.

Syllabus Modules

Syllabus modules coming soon.

Planned Practice Projects

Projects mapping coming soon.

Learning Outcomes

  • Build circuit breakers triggers stopping downstream cascade faults
  • Configure dynamic autoscaling groups triggers monitoring requests depth
  • Understand backpressure systems blocking load overflows

Interview Defense

  • Analyze tradeoffs of sticky sessions setups on load balancers nodes
  • Structure graceful degradation fallbacks when server instances offline