Foundation → senior · staff-level stretch prompts

System design, drilled to senior depth.


21 topic chapters with mental models, decision tables, quantitative reasoning, and failure analysis — plus 252 calibrated questions with hidden answer signals, cross-topic design drills, and mock interview packets. Read, answer aloud, reveal the signals, tick it off.

Interview Method
  1. Study Roadmap
  2. The Interview Framework
  3. Quantitative Cheat Sheet
  4. Senior Evaluation Rubric
  5. Senior Follow-Up Playbook
Background
  1. 01 Computer Architecture
  2. 02 Application Architecture
  3. 03 Design Requirements
Networking
  1. 04 Networking Basics
  2. 05 TCP and UDP
  3. 06 DNS
APIs
  1. 07 HTTP
  2. 08 WebSockets
  3. 09 API Paradigms
  4. 10 API Design
Caching
  1. 11 Caching
  2. 12 Content Delivery Networks
Proxies & Load Balancing
  1. 13 Proxies and Load Balancing
  2. 14 Consistent Hashing
Storage
  1. 15 SQL and Relational Databases
  2. 16 NoSQL Data Stores
  3. 17 Replication and Sharding
  4. 18 CAP Theorem and Consistency
  5. 19 Object Storage
Big Data
  1. 20 Message Queues and Event-Driven Systems
  2. 21 MapReduce and Batch Processing
Practice
  1. Cross-Topic Design Drills
  2. Rapid-Fire Question Bank
  3. Mock Interviews & Scorecards

Independently written interview practice material organized around the NeetCode System Design for Beginners topic list. Each chapter links to primary specifications and official documentation.