System Design First Principles

The chapters in this module, in reading order.

#	Chapter
00	System Design First Principles — The Five-Year-Old Version
01	What Interviewers Actually Evaluate — Structure beats sparkle
02	Requirements Before Boxes — The house rules decide the shape
03	Back-of-Envelope Math — Turn vague scale into real pressure
04	Single Box to Breakdown — One server works, until physics objects
05	Building Blocks Toolkit — The few parts behind almost every design
06	Data Flow First Design — Follow the ticket, not your panic
07	Storage Decision Framework — Pick by access pattern, not ideology
08	Caching Where and Why — Fast by not repeating yourself
09	Scaling Dimensions — Bigger machine or more machines?
10	CAP Theorem Reality — Not a personality test for databases
11	Failure modes and resilience — survive the bad day on purpose
12	Latency and throughput budgets — speed is a budget, not a wish
13	Structured walkthrough — speak in sequence, not in circles
14	Honest admission — seniority is knowing where the map is fuzzy