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10 hrs 45 mins

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Ultimate System Design For Beginners

By Akhil Sharma

Master the foundational architecture of modern distributed systems by breaking down core networking and security protocols. This definitive guide equips you to design scalable, resilient applications, taking you step-by-step through IP, TCP/UDP, HTTP, DNS, SSL/TLS, and advanced data serialization techniques to build robust backend infrastructures with absolute confidence.

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Ultimate System Design For Beginners

Table of Contents

What is System Design? (System Design for Beginners – Episode 1)

What is Internet Protocol (IP)? (System Design for Beginners – Epsiode 2)

IPv4 vs IPv6: What’s the Difference? (System Design for Beginners – Episode 3)

TCP: How It Actually Works (System Design for Beginners – Episode 4)

UDP: Why Real-Time Systems Prefer UDP (System Design for Beginners – Episode 5)

HTTP : Most Engineers Misunderstand It (System Design for Beginners – Episode 6)

HTTP Methods Explained: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE (System Design for Beginners – Episode 7)

DNS: How the Internet Finds Everything (System Design for Beginners – Episode 8)

SSL Explained: The First Step Toward Secure Communication (System Design for Beginners – Episode 9)

TLS Explained: The Backbone of HTTPS and Secure APIs (System Design for Beginners – Episode 10)

Encoding & Serialization : How Data Moves Between Systems (System Design for Beginners – Episode 11)

Hashing Explained: The Backbone of Security & Scalability (System Design for Beginners – Episode 12)

Checksums Explained: How Systems Detect Data Corruption (System Design for Beginners – Episode 13)

Encryption Explained: How Data is Protected Modern Systems(System Design for Beginners – Episode 14)

Symmetric Encryption Explained: Fast Security at Scale (System Design for Beginners – Episode 15)

Asymmetric Encryption : Public & Private Keys Demystified (System Design for Beginners – Episode 16)

Diffie-Hellman: How Secure Keys Are Shared Over Internet (System Design for Beginners – Episode 17)

Extended Diffie-Hellman : How Secure Messaging Works (System Design for Beginners – Episode 18)

Double Ratchet Protocol: How Secure Messaging Works (System Design for Beginners – Episode 19)

SSL Handshake: How Secure Connections Are Established (System Design for Beginners – Episode 20)

TLS 1.2 Handshake: Step-by-Step Explanation (System Design for Beginners – Episode 21)

TLS 1.3 Handshake: Faster and More Secure TLS Explained (System Design for Beginners – Episode 22)

What Is an API? How Software Systems Communicate (System Design for Beginners – Episode 23)

REST API: Designing Scalable Web Services (System Design for Beginners – Episode 24)

API Best Practices: How GREAT APIs Are Designed (System Design for Beginners – Episode 25)

API Performance Enhancements: Faster and Reliable APIs (System Design for Beginners – Episode 26)

GraphQL: How Modern APIs Fetch Data Efficiently (System Design for Beginners – Episode 27)

HTTP/2: How the Web Became Faster (System Design for Beginners – Episode 28)

gRPC: High-Performance streaming APIs for Microservices (System Design for Beginners – Episode 29)

QUIC: Why the Internet Is Moving Beyond TCP (System Design for Beginners – Episode 30)

HTTP/3: How the Web Works Over QUIC (System Design for Beginners – Episode 31)

MQTT: Lightweight Messaging for IoT Systems (System Design for Beginners – Episode 32)

API Polling: Why It Doesn’t Scale Well (System Design for Beginners – Episode 33)

WebSockets: Real-Time Communication Explained (System Design for Beginners – Episode 34)

Webhooks: Event-Driven APIs in Action (System Design for Beginners – Episode 35)

How Browsers Video Call Without Servers –WebRTC Explained (System Design for Beginners – Episode 36)

How Two Devices Behind NAT Find Each Other –STUN/TURN/ICE (System Design for Beginners – Episode 37)

How Your Traffic Becomes Untraceable – VPN Explained (System Design for Beginners – Episode 38)

What Is SSH? How does it work? (System Design for Beginners – Episode 39)

The TOR network - Explained in Detail (System Design for Beginners – Episode 40)

Forward Secrecy Explained (System Design for Beginners – Episode 41)

How Millions of Devices Share One IP – NAT Explained (System Design for Beginners – Episode 42)

How Networks Block 99% Web Traffic – Firewalls Explained (System Design for Beginners – Episode 43)

How One Protocol Sends Billions of Emails –SMTP Explained (System Design for Beginners – Episode 44)

Caching Deep Dive (System Design for Beginners – Episode 45)

LoadBalancing Deep Dive (System Design for Beginners – Episode 46)

Bastion Servers Deep Dive (System Design for Beginners – Episode 47)

RATELIMTING Deep Dive (System Design for Beginners – Episode 48)

THROTTLING Deep Dive (System Design for Beginners – Episode 49)

API GATEWAYS Deep Dive (System Design for Beginners – Episode 50)

MULTI - LEVEL CACHING (System Design for Beginners – Episode 51)

CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS (System Design for Beginners – Episode 52)

CLUSTERS IN SYSTEM DESIGN (System Design for Beginners – Episode 53)

MAINTAINABILITY AND EXTENSIBILITY (System Design for Beginners – Episode 54)

RELIABILITY for SREs (System Design for Beginners – Episode 55)

Here's Why You Suck at System Design (and How to Fix it) (System Design for Beginners – Episode 56)