Hands On System Design with Distributed Systems Implementation
What you'll build
LogStream
a production-grade distributed log platform, built lesson by lesson across roughly a year
The curriculum
4 core areas coveredWhat you'll walk away with
What you're signing up for
What makes it different
"Build real components with tangible outputs every single day" — a production mindset covering security, scalability, observability, and fault tolerance.
Format
Bite-sized daily lessons, free via Substack, progressing from basics to complex architecture over roughly a year. Practical coding tasks in Java/Spring Boot (principles are language-agnostic).
Who it's for
Engineers who can pass a system design interview on a whiteboard but have never actually built the distributed system they were describing.
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