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6 steps6h trajectoryintermediate
Scalability and Reliability
Focuses on high-throughput, multi-region reliability patterns with strong operational safeguards and incident resilience.
Completion0%
Target role
Engineers targeting senior-level backend/platform interviews.
Current focus
Step 1: Global Caching and Traffic Steering
Progress mode
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Step 1CurrentadvancedPremium
Content Delivery Network (CDN) Service
Design a global CDN with edge caching, origin shielding, request routing, cache invalidation, and cost-aware traffic steering.

Why now

Builds a solid mental model for edge workloads and cache correctness at scale.

Skills learned

Edge cache keysPurge strategyOrigin protection
Step 2UpcomingadvancedPremium
Search Engine Platform
Design a web-scale search engine with crawling, indexing, ranking, retrieval, and relevance feedback loops.

Why now

Reinforces partitioning and ranking architecture under heavy read load.

Skills learned

Shard layoutRetrieval/ranking pipelineQuality safeguards
Step 3UpcomingadvancedPremium
Distributed Job Scheduler with DAG Dependencies
Design a distributed scheduler that executes large DAG-based workflows with strict dependency tracking, retry isolation, and multi-region control.

Why now

Introduces workflow reliability and dependency correctness in distributed control planes.

Skills learned

DAG scheduling semanticsRetry/backoff policyIdempotent execution
Step 4UpcomingadvancedPremium
Ticket Booking & Seat Reservation System
Design a high-concurrency ticketing system with seat holds, anti-oversell guarantees, payment flows, and event surge handling.

Why now

Stress-tests transaction design, lock contention handling, and abuse controls.

Skills learned

Hot partition mitigationReservation correctnessBot/fairness controls
Step 5UpcomingadvancedPremium
Control Plane for Multi-Region Kubernetes Clusters
Design a global Kubernetes control plane that manages desired state, policy, and rollout safety across many regional clusters with strict reliability and consistency guarantees.

Why now

Targets multi-region leadership, convergence, and control-plane availability tradeoffs.

Skills learned

Control loop designRegional failoverOperational blast-radius management
Step 6UpcomingadvancedPremium
Ephemeral Sandbox Execution Platform
Design a secure, high-throughput platform that runs untrusted code in short-lived sandboxes with strict isolation, low cold-start latency, and global scale.

Why now

Finalizes reliability trajectory with isolation and execution safety under adversarial workloads.

Skills learned

Sandbox isolation boundariesRuntime policy enforcementCost-safe autoscaling

Checkpoints

Architecture Throughput Checkpoint
Can defend 1x/2x/10x scaling bottlenecks without generic answers.

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Reliability Maturity Checkpoint
Simulation average >= 74 and explicit failure mitigation playbooks.

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