Design an Amazon Fulfillment Center System
Inventory tracking, robotics control, picking/packing optimization, order routing. Tests cyber-physical workflow design + real-time coordination at warehouse scale.
awsgeneralkafkasystem-design
Solutions Architect
Customer-facing architect. Cloud-flavored design, integration patterns, stakeholder communication.
Primary categories: system-design · cs-fundamentals · behavioral
Curriculum (5 topics)
Design an E-Commerce Platform (Amazon-style)
Catalog + search + cart + order + payment + inventory + fulfillment decomposed into services. The "draw the whole company" architecture round.
awsgeneralsqlsystem-design
Design a URL Shortener (TinyURL / bit.ly)
Classic system-design starter. Tests capacity estimation, ID generation, read-heavy storage, caching, and analytics. Asked at Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, LinkedIn.
generalsystem-design
Design Meta News Feed, Fan-out at Scale
Meta's E5+ Product Design canon. Push (fan-out-on-write) vs Pull (fan-out-on-read) vs hybrid. The interviewer wants the trade-off math, not a buzzword tour.
generalkafkaredissystem-design
STAR & STAR-L Method for Behavioral Stories
Structured story format used by every Mag7 behavioral round. Google extends to STAR-L (Learnings). Amazon expects 1 LP per story. Netflix tunes to culture pillars.
behavioralgeneral