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⚒️ Level 3

AI Craft

Design systems that scale AI

Learn system design for modern AI products: model gateways, retrieval services, async workloads, streaming, caches, rate limits, tenancy, and resilient APIs.

10
Lessons
~18h
Duration
3/5
Level

🎯 What You'll Learn

  • ✓Produce a clear architecture with justified trade-offs
  • ✓Design for failure, scale, and operational visibility
  • ✓Estimate AI cost and capacity before implementation
  • ✓Defend an AI system design in a technical review

Prerequisites: Comfort with APIs, databases, and distributed-system basics

👤 Who Is This For?

Mid-to-senior engineers designing distributed AI systems

🏷️ Topics Covered

AI platform and model gatewaysRAG and vector retrieval servicesQueues, streaming, and async inferenceCaching, rate limits, and tenancyResilience, security, and observability
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1
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System Design Fundamentals

Master the core components every system design interview expects you to know.

⏱️ 20m→
2
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Design a URL Shortener

Walk through a complete URL shortener design using the structured interview framework.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

AI Craft teaches system design - how to architect large-scale distributed systems. You'll design recommendation engines, search autocomplete, rate limiters, and other systems that power modern AI products.

Yes, AI Craft assumes you're comfortable with coding interviews and basic distributed systems concepts. It's designed for mid-to-senior engineers preparing for system design rounds.

Yes! System design rounds are a critical part of senior-level interviews at major tech companies. AI Craft teaches you to structure answers clearly and design scalable systems.

The first lesson of AI Craft is free to try. Pro unlocks the rest of the programme, along with every other academy, track, and certificate.

You'll design a URL shortener, rate limiter, recommendation engine, and more. Each system is explained with trade-off analysis, scalability considerations, and AI-specific infrastructure patterns.

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Design a Chat Application

Design a WhatsApp-like chat system handling millions of concurrent users with real-time delivery.

Pro⏱️ 25m→
4
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Design a Recommendation Engine

Architect a production recommendation system combining collaborative filtering, embeddings, and real-time serving.

Pro⏱️ 25m→
5
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Design an AI API Platform

Architect a platform like OpenAI's API that serves multiple AI models with authentication, rate limiting, and auto-scaling.

Pro⏱️ 25m→
6
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Design a Rate Limiter

Learn how to design a distributed rate limiter using token bucket, sliding window, and Redis-backed algorithms to protect APIs from abuse and ensure fair usage.

Pro⏱️ 20m→
7
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Design a Notification System

Design a scalable multi-channel notification system handling push, email, SMS, and in-app notifications with message queues, deduplication, and user preference management.

Pro⏱️ 22m→
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Design a Video Streaming Platform

Design a scalable video streaming platform covering upload pipelines, adaptive bitrate transcoding, CDN distribution, and live streaming architecture.

Pro⏱️ 25m→
9
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Design a Web Crawler

Design a distributed web crawler covering URL frontier management, politeness policies, content deduplication with SimHash, and distributed crawling with consistent hashing.

Pro⏱️ 22m→
10
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Design a Distributed Cache

Design a distributed caching system covering cache strategies, consistent hashing, eviction policies, cache stampede prevention, and Redis Cluster architecture.

Pro⏱️ 23m→