System Design Series - Finale 🎉
First, a big thank you.
4 months ago, Started sharing
Tech content from my learning and work experience.
In mid March, I started this series with just over 1000 followers.
Today, as we close Week 10,
we’ve crossed 4,700+ followers 🚀
What started as a simple idea, sharing one
System Design topic every day turned into something much bigger.
10 weeks. 10 topics. 40+ posts.
One complete Backend System Design series Production Ready.
Here’s everything we covered the foundation every backend engineer needs:
Week 1: APIs & Databases — REST, SQL vs NoSQL, indexes, pagination
Week 2: Caching — Redis, cache invalidation, CDN, multi-layer caching
Week 3: Message Queues — RabbitMQ, async processing, retry patterns
Week 4: Load Balancing — Algorithms, horizontal scaling, stateless design
Week 5: Microservices — Monolith vs microservices vs modular monolith
Week 6: Database Scaling — Read replicas, replication lag, failover with Patroni
Week 7: API Gateway & Rate Limiting — DDoS protection, circuit breakers, strategies
Week 8: Monitoring & Observability — Metrics, logs, traces, alerting
Week 9: Security — OWASP, authentication, encryption, common vulnerabilities
Week 10: CI/CD & Deployment — GitHub Actions, Docker, deployment strategies
Every topic has a full deep-dive article on Medium 📝
Check the Highlights section on my profile for all Post in one place and Bio Link for medium deep dive articles.
Thank you for every reply, bookmark, and follow.
10 weeks.
Completed.
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