System Design Course – APIs, Databases, Caching, CDNs, Load Balancing & Production Infra

Level up your system design skills! This course progresses from foundational concepts to production-ready systems, covering databases, scaling, and load balancing. Learn practical techniques for building and securing APIs, including RESTful and GraphQL. Course developed by @hayk.simonyan ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp ⭐️ Contents ⭐️ - 0:00:00 Introduction - 0:03:05 Single Server Setup - 0:07:12 Databases: SQL, NoSQL, Graph - 0:13:32 Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling - 0:16:22 Load Balancing - 0:25:08 Health Checks - 0:28:00 Single Point of Failure (SPOF) - 0:31:01 API Design - 0:47:17 API Protocols - 0:59:10 Transport Layer: TCP, UDP - 1:04:22 RESTful APIs - 1:19:04 GraphQL - 1:24:52 Authentication - 1:45:51 Authorization - 1:57:02 Security 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 @omerhattapoglu1158 👾 @goddardtan 👾 @akihayashi6629 👾 @kikilogsin 👾 @anthonycampbell2148 👾 @tobymiller7790 👾 @rajibdassharma497 👾 @CloudVirtualizationEnthusiast 👾 @adilsoncarlosvianacarlos 👾 @martinmacchia1564 👾 @ulisesmoralez4160 👾 @_Oscar_ 👾 @jedi-or-sith2728 👾 @justinhual1290 -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news