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Technical TrackADVANCED ~36 mins total
System Design: From Zero to Production
A comprehensive engineering series guiding backend developers from single-node instances to highly resilient distributed architectures.
NE
Nexus Engineering
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Track Curriculum (3 Parts)
01
Designing a Distributed Rate Limiter with Redis and Lua Scripts
A deep dive into sub-millisecond sliding window counter algorithms, token buckets, and coordinating distributed rate limiting across multi-region API gateways.
12 min
02
Zero-Downtime PostgreSQL Schema Migrations at Scale
Understanding lock queues, ACCESS EXCLUSIVE table locks, expand-contract patterns, and executing safe DDL operations on production databases under heavy concurrency.
9 min
03
Kafka Partitioning Strategies for Zero-Data-Loss Architectures
Guaranteed message ordering, consumer group rebalancing internals, and handling backpressure in distributed event stream pipelines.
15 min