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Take your app from 'it works' to 'it survives the real world at scale.' Master system design, database optimization, background jobs, caching, observability, infrastructure as code, security, and reliability through a single through-line project: scaling Gather to 100K users.
Advanced50 hours10 modules57 lessons
Curriculum
01System Design Thinking
300min- Free PreviewFrom Working App to Production App35min
- Latency, Throughput, and the 99th Percentile40min
- Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling35min
- CAP Theorem and Consistency Tradeoffs40min
- Designing Gather for 100K Users40min
- ProjectGather Architecture Review75min
02Database Performance and Optimization
330min- Query Performance with EXPLAIN ANALYZE40min
- Indexing Strategies45min
- Connection Pooling with PgBouncer35min
- Database Migrations Without Downtime40min
- Read Replicas and Query Routing35min
- ProjectGather Under Load90min
03Background Jobs and Task Queues
300min- Why Synchronous Is Not Enough35min
- Redis as a Message Broker35min
- Celery Fundamentals45min
- Retry Strategies and Idempotency40min
- Monitoring Celery with Flower30min
- ProjectModule Project: Async RSVP Pipeline75min
04Caching Strategies
300min- The Caching Hierarchy35min
- Redis as Application Cache40min
- Cache Invalidation Patterns45min
- HTTP Caching35min
- CDN and Edge Caching30min
- ProjectSpeed Up Gather75min
05Object Storage and File Processing
270min- Why Not Store Files in Your Database30min
- S3-Compatible Object Storage40min
- Presigned URLs and Direct Uploads35min
- Image Processing Pipelines35min
- ProjectGather Image Pipeline75min
06Real-Time at Scale
300min- WebSockets vs SSE vs Long Polling35min
- Server-Sent Events with Django40min
- Redis Pub/Sub for Cross-Process Communication40min
- Scaling Real-Time Across Instances35min
- Rate Limiting and Backpressure35min
- ProjectGather Live -- SSE with Redis Pub/Sub for Live RSVP Counts75min
07Observability and Incident Response
330min- The Three Pillars of Observability35min
- Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry45min
- Metrics and Dashboards40min
- Log Aggregation and Structured Search35min
- Incident Response and Postmortems35min
- ProjectGather Observability Stack90min
08Advanced Deployment and Infrastructure
330min- Deployment Strategies40min
- Feature Flags35min
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform45min
- Container Orchestration Concepts35min
- Secrets Management at Scale35min
- ProjectModule Project: Gather Zero-Downtime Deploy90min
09Security and Reliability Patterns
300min- OWASP Top 10 for Django and Next.js40min
- API Security40min
- Circuit Breakers and Graceful Degradation35min
- Database Backups and Disaster Recovery35min
- Chaos Engineering Basics35min
- ProjectGather Resilience Audit75min
10Capstone: Gather at Scale
330min- System Design Interview Practice45min
- Load Testing and Capacity Planning45min
- Production Launch Checklist35min
- ProjectProduction Launch150min
Prerequisites
- Full-Stack Python course (or equivalent Django + Next.js experience)
- TypeScript + React/Next.js proficiency
- Python + Django/DRF proficiency
- Docker + Docker Compose basics
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions
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DifficultyAdvanced
Duration50 hours
Modules10
Lessons57