Master System Design - LLD + HLD the right way

Java + OOP, SOLID, Design Patterns, Concurrency, Microservices and real HLD case studies Uber, Slack, Netflix, Swiggy and more. Built for product-grade engineers and FAANG-level interviews.

What is System Design ?

System Design is the process of defining the architecture, components, and data flow of large-scale software systems  the exact skill that separates average engineers from senior engineers at top product companies.

High-Level Design (HLD) ?

HLD is the big picture. You will learn how to design systems like YouTube, Uber, or WhatsApp by making decisions around scalability, availability, load balancers, databases, and CDNs — exactly the way it's discussed in FAANG interviews.

Low-Level Design (LLD) ?

LLD is the engineering detail. You will learn Object-Oriented Design, Design Patterns, SOLID principles, and how to model real-world systems like a Parking Lot, Ride Booking App, or URL Shortener using clean, extensible code architecture.

Why is 2026 the Perfect Year to Learn System Design?

System Design is now a mandatory interview round at every product-based company — from Google and Amazon to Razorpay, Zepto, and CRED.

Every Product Company Asks This

Whether you're a 2-year or 5-year experienced engineer, if you're applying at a product-based company, you will face a System Design round. Companies use it to filter engineers who can think at scale, not just write code.

The AI-Era Demands Architects, Not Just Coders

With AI tools automating boilerplate code writing, companies want engineers who can design intelligent, scalable systems. System Design is the skill that keeps you indispensable in the AI era.

Massive Salary Jump Awaits

Engineers who clear System Design rounds consistently land 30–60% higher salary packages. A mid-level developer who can design systems like a senior commands Senior/Staff engineer compensation.

Tier-2 Engineers Are Now Cracking FAANG

With the right structured preparation, engineers from Hyderabad, Vizag, Vijayawada, and Warangal are landing roles at Atlassian, Flipkart, and Amazon. The only gap was structured System Design knowledge — and that's what this course fills.

Why System Design matters

The difference between a coder and an engineer is system design. Here is the path.

Clean Code

Write code that other engineers actually want to read and maintain.

OOP & SOLID

Model real-world problems with strong object-oriented foundations.

Design Patterns

Apply the right pattern at the right time — never pattern for pattern's sake.

Distributed Systems

Design systems that scale to millions of users without falling over.

Crack Interviews

Walk into any LLD or HLD interview with a repeatable framework.

Built for serious engineers

Whether you are cracking SDE-2 or designing your team’s next platform — this course meets you there.

SDE-1 / SDE-2

Engineers preparing for SDE-2/3 promotions where design rounds decide the outcome.

Backend Developers

Java, Spring Boot or any backend developer wanting product-grade design skills.

CS Graduates

Final-year and recent graduates targeting product-based companies.

Service-to-Product Switchers

TCS / Infosys / Wipro engineers cracking interviews at Flipkart, Razorpay, Atlassian.

Interview Aspirants

Anyone with FAANG / unicorn interviews lined up in the next 3-6 months.

Tech Leads & Architects

Senior engineers formalising the patterns they have used for years.

The real-world stack

The exact technologies behind today’s product companies — used in every case study.

Java

Spring Boot

UML

Kafka

Redis

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Design what real products use

Four flagship case studies — every concept lands inside a real product context.

Project 01

Library Management System

Build a clean library system and refactor it by applying OOP foundations and all five SOLID principles.

🛠 Tools Used

Factory Pattern

Builder Pattern

SOLID , OOP

Dependency
Injection

Outcome

Master OOP, SOLID principles, and clean code architecture.

Project 04

Payment Gateway

Design a fault-tolerant payment platform with idempotency and distributed transaction handling.

🛠 Tools Used

Kafka

Saga Pattern

Outbox Pattern

Event-Driven Architecture

Outcome

Master distributed systems and fintech architecture.

Project 02

Parking Lot

Design a multi-floor parking lot with concurrent entry gates and deadlock prevention mechanisms.

🛠 Tools Used

Concurrent Hash Map

Reentrant Lock

AtomicInteger

Proxy Pattern

Outcome

Learn concurrency, synchronization, and thread safety.

Project 05

YouTube

Build a large-scale video platform handling uploads, playback, search, and global delivery.

🛠 Tools Used

CDN

API Gateway

BFF

Sharding

Outcome

Learn large-scale media architecture.

Project 03

YouTube

Build a large-scale video platform handling uploads, playback, search, and global delivery.

🛠 Tools Used

CDN

API Gateway

BFF

Sharding

Outcome

Learn large-scale media architecture.

Project 06

Uber / Swiggy

Design a real-time ride-hailing or food delivery platform with event-driven architecture.

🛠 Tools Used

Kafka

WebSockets

Microservices

API Gateway

Outcome

Understand real-time scalable systems.

12 modules. LLD + HLD. Zero fluff.

Each module builds on the last — from Java fundamentals to scaling Uber-sized systems.

Java & Object-Oriented Programming Foundations
Core Java
  • JVM, JDK and JRE
  • Primitive vs reference types
  • Classes, objects, constructors, this keyword
  • Access modifiers
OOP Pillars
  • Encapsulation
  • Abstraction
  • Inheritance
  • Polymorphism
  • Method overloading vs overriding
  • Composition vs inheritance
  • OOP best practices
Case Study
  • Library Management System

Design Smells

  • God class
  • Feature envy
  • Primitive obsession
  • Anemic domain model
SOLID Principles
  • Single Responsibility Principle
  • Open/Closed Principle
  • Liskov Substitution Principle
  • Interface Segregation Principle
  • Dependency Inversion Principle
  • Dependency Injection
Case Studies
  • Invoice Management System
  • Order Management System

Class diagrams, sequence diagrams and ER modeling — communicate design clearly in interviews.

Creational Patterns
  • Singleton
  • Factory & Abstract Factory
  • Builder
Structural Patterns
  • Adapter
  • Decorator
  • Proxy
Behavioural Patterns
  • Strategy
  • Observer
  • Command
  • Template Method
  • State
  • Chain of Responsibility
Projects
  • Payment Gateway Factory
  • Vending Machine
  • Smart Home System
  • Loan Approval Workflow
Foundations
  • Threads vs processes
  • Runnable vs Callable vs Thread
  • synchronized
  • volatile
  • wait(), notify(), notifyAll()
Executor Framework
  • ExecutorService
  • ThreadPoolExecutor
  • Future and Callable
  • CountDownLatch
  • CyclicBarrier
  • Semaphore
Case Studies
  • Printer Queue System
  • Order Fulfillment System
Concurrent Data Structures
  • ConcurrentHashMap
  • BlockingQueue
  • CopyOnWriteArrayList
  • AtomicInteger
  • AtomicReference
Advanced Locking
  • ReentrantLock
  • ReadWriteLock
Advanced Concepts
  • Deadlock
  • Livelock and starvation
  • CompletableFuture
Case Studies
  • Thread-Safe LRU Cache
  • Banking Transfer System
  • Log Aggregator
  • Parking Lot
  • Elevator System
  • ATM Machine
  • Movie Ticket Booking
  • Splitwise
  • Snake and Ladder
  • Cab Booking System
  • Food Ordering System
  • Hotel Booking System
  • Advanced Library Management System
  • Logging Framework
  • Notification System
  • In-Memory Key-Value Store
  • Rate Limiter
Framework
  • Functional vs non-functional requirements
  • System design approach
Scalability & Availability
  • Reliability vs availability
  • Capacity estimation
Networking
  • DNS
  • HTTP & HTTPS
  • WebSockets vs SSE vs polling
  • Reverse Proxy
  • Load Balancers
Practical
  • API Exploration using Postman
Case Study
  • Instagram Architecture
API Design
  • REST principles
  • Pagination
  • Idempotency
  • API versioning
Authentication & Authorization
  • AuthN vs AuthZ
  • JWT
  • OAuth 2.0
  • API Keys
  • Session vs Token-based authentication
Infrastructure
  • API Gateway
  • BFF Pattern
Case Studies
  • GitHub API
  • Payment APIs
Foundations
  • SQL vs NoSQL
  • Relational, Document, Wide-column, Time-series, Graph databases
Performance
  • Data modeling
  • Normalization & Denormalization
  • Indexing
  • ACID properties
  • Isolation levels
Scaling Data
  • Partitioning
  • Sharding
  • Consistent Hashing
  • CAP theorem
Caching
  • Cache Aside
  • Write Through
  • Write Back
  • Redis
Case Studies
  • URL Shortener
  • Pastebin
Messaging Fundamentals
  • Queue vs Pub/Sub
  • Delivery guarantees
  • Dead Letter Queues
Kafka
  • Partitions
  • Consumer Groups
  • Event Log
Event Driven Architecture
  • Choreography vs Orchestration
  • Saga Pattern
  • Outbox Pattern
Reliability
  • Service Discovery
  • Circuit Breaker
  • Distributed Transactions
Case Studies
  • Uber
  • Swiggy / Zomato
Architecture
  • Monolith vs Microservices
  • Service boundaries
  • Synchronous vs asynchronous communication
Reliability
  • Retry and exponential backoff
  • Idempotency keys
  • Timeout strategies
  • Bulkhead pattern
  • Health checks
Observability
  • Logging
  • Metrics
  • Distributed tracing
Scale
  • Multi-region systems
  • High availability
  • Leader-follower replication
Real-Time Communication
  • WebSocket architecture
  • Pub/Sub
  • Offline users
Geo-Spatial Systems
  • Geohash
  • Quadtree
  • Real-time location updates
Notifications & Rate Limiting
  • Fan-out problem
  • Distributed rate limiter
Case Studies
  • WhatsApp
  • Slack
  • Facebook Nearby Friends
  • Hotstar Live Streaming
System Design Case Studies
  • YouTube
  • Payment Gateway
  • Search System
  • BookMyShow
  • Stock Trading Platform
  • Distributed Cache
  • Recommendation System
  • Multi-Tenant SaaS
Enterprise Design Reviews
  • Scalability analysis
  • High availability design
  • Failure handling

Salary Opportunities & Industry Standards

Fresher System Design Salaries

Job Role

Experience

Average Salary

SDE-1

Fresher

₹4.5 – ₹6 LPA

Backend Engineer

Fresher

₹3 – ₹6 LPA

Software Engineer

Fresher

₹3.5 – ₹7 LPA

(FAANG/

Unicorn)

Fresher

₹2.5 – ₹4 LPA

Experienced System Design Salaries

Job Role

Experience

Average Salary

SDE-2

3–5 Years

₹9 – ₹15 LPA

Staff Engineer

3–5 Years

₹10 – ₹18 LPA

Engineering Manager

4–6 Years

₹12 – ₹20 LPA

Solutions Architect

5–8 Years

₹12 – ₹25 LPA

Top Companies Hiring Graduates of This System Design Course

See exactly how we teach

Get a real feel for the teaching style, depth and pace before you commit.

What you'll learn

How to approach any LLD problem in 30 minutes

Duration

Approx. 60 minutes

Trainer

Chaitanya — 10+ yrs product engineering

Topics covered

OOP, SOLID and a live LLD walkthrough

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Beyond Courses We Build Careers.

Every program includes industry-focused add-on sessions designed to help students crack jobs, freelance, switch careers, and grow professionally.

Career Acceleration Ecosystem

Everything you need beyond coding to become job-ready.

Resume Building

Session 01

LinkedIn Optimization

Session 02

Freelancing

Session 03

Career Switch Guidance

Session 04

Job Search Strategy

Session 05

Financial Awareness

Session 06

MAANG Preparation

Session 07

Agile & Scrum Workflow

Session 08

Git & GitHub

Session 09

HR + Salary Negotiation

Session 10

Communication Bootcamp

Session 11

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