High-Throughput Backend Engineering
The backbone of the modern internet. This 5-week course dives deep into network protocols, database indexing, message queues, and building robust microservices that don't fail when traffic spikes 10,000%.
Mastered Technologies
You Will Build
Design and implement a distributed event-ticketing system handling a simulated surge of 50,000 concurrent ticket requests without dropping transactions.
The 5-Week Syllabus
An intense, week-by-week breakdown designed to push your limits.
System Design & Relational Databases
Go beyond simple CRUD to understand indexing, B-Trees, and transaction isolation.
Core Topics
- ACID vs BASE
- Index Tuning
- Connection Pooling
Hands-on Lab
Optimize a database schema reducing query time from 2s to 15ms.
Scalable API Architecture
Building robust, versioned, and rate-limited APIs.
Core Topics
- REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC
- Rate Limiting Algorithms
- API Gateways
Hands-on Lab
Implement a secure gRPC service mesh with Go.
Event-Driven & Async Systems
Decoupling services using message queues to handle massive burst traffic.
Core Topics
- Kafka Fundamentals
- Idempotency
- Dead Letter Queues
Hands-on Lab
Build a distributed order processing system using RabbitMQ.
Caching & In-Memory Data Stores
Using Redis strategically to protect databases and accelerate reads.
Core Topics
- Cache Invalidation Strategies
- Redis Pub/Sub
- Distributed Locking
Hands-on Lab
Implement a real-time leaderboard using Redis Sorted Sets.
Observability & Fault Tolerance
If you can't measure it, it's not production ready.
Core Topics
- Circuit Breakers
- Distributed Tracing (OpenTelemetry)
- Structured Logging
Hands-on Lab
Simulate a cascade failure and implement progressive degradation.
Expert Facilitator
Dr. Rostova designed core transactional systems processing billions in global payments. She brings ruthless academic rigor mixed with deep industry pragmatism.
Student Perks
- Cloud database credits
- Architecture diagram reviews
- Direct feedback on system design docs