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No. This is an interactive, slide-based learning platform. Each lesson has rich text, animated diagrams, live code editors, and quizzes. You learn by reading, interacting, and doing, not by watching videos passively.

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What level of experience do I need?

None. We start from absolute basics like 'What is latency?' and build up to distributed consensus protocols. The Foundation level assumes zero prior knowledge of system design.

How much does the system design course cost?

7.99 US dollars for lifetime access globally, or 499 Indian rupees for lifetime access in India. One-time payment, no subscription, no hidden fees. 11 lessons are free with no signup required.

What technologies are covered?

Everything from DNS and load balancers to Kubernetes, Kafka, distributed databases, consensus protocols, stream processing, security architecture, and observability. We cover principles and real-world implementations used at Netflix, Google, Amazon, Uber, Stripe, and more.

Is this useful for system design interview preparation?

Yes. The lessons are structured around the exact topics asked in system design interviews at FAANG and top-tier companies. Interactive diagrams help you practice whiteboard-style explanations. Covers everything from URL shortener design to distributed payment systems.

How is this different from ByteByteGo or Educative?

766 interactive lessons (4x more than most competitors), 16 different diagram types that build step by step, real production examples from Netflix, Google, Amazon, Uber, and Stripe, and lifetime access for a one-time payment of $7.99 instead of annual subscriptions costing 100 to 200 dollars per year.

What makes the Strangler Fig pattern safer than a full rewrite?

It's incremental: you extract and verify one feature at a time while the monolith continues serving all other traffic, The Strangler Fig pattern's safety comes from incrementalism. Each extraction is small and reversible. The monolith continues handling everything that hasn't been extracted. If a new service fails, traffic routes back to the monolith. A full rewrite is all-or-nothing: nothing works until everything works.

What component is essential for the Strangler Fig pattern to work?

A routing layer (API Gateway/reverse proxy) that can direct traffic to either the monolith or the new service per feature, The routing layer is the linchpin. It sits in front of both systems and decides, per request, whether to send traffic to the monolith or the new service. Without it, you can't incrementally shift traffic or revert to the monolith when something goes wrong.

What is the hardest part of a strangler fig migration?

Data ownership: deciding which service owns which tables and keeping data in sync during the transition, The new service needs its own database, but the monolith still reads and writes the shared database. Deciding who owns which data, keeping it in sync via CDC or dual writes, and avoiding consistency bugs during the transition period is the hardest and riskiest part of the migration.

Strangler Fig Pattern

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