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Architecture Track

GenAI System Design and Architecture Interviews

Turn an AI product idea into a quantified production architecture covering capacity, latency, RAG, model routing, tenancy, reliability, evaluation, security, regional recovery, and design interviews.

Advanced · architecture practice
About 155 min reading
39 authored sections

Before you start: Backend service design, queues, databases, latency percentiles, and RAG.

Plan for 6–10 hours of hands-on work in addition to reading. This is an initial estimate; setup and extensions vary.

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Read these complete sections to judge the technical depth, teaching style, and architecture standard before buying.

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Course Contract: What You Will Be Able to Design

This course teaches architecture as a chain of evidence, not a collection of boxes.

Preview 2

Think in Contracts, Flows, and Failure Domains

An architecture is a set of decisions about where responsibility lives and what happens when assumptions stop holding.

Preview 3

Worked Case: Enterprise Support Copilot

Follow one design from product contract to release evidence.

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Complete curriculum

39 sections · 4 parts + capstone

Course orientation

  1. Course ContractFree

Part 1 · Frame the System

  1. Architecture MindsetFree
  2. Problem FramingCourse Pass
  3. RequirementsCourse Pass
  4. AI UncertaintyCourse Pass
  5. Service ContractCourse Pass
  6. Capacity MathCourse Pass
  7. Latency BudgetCourse Pass
  8. Cost ModelCourse Pass

Part 2 · Build the Architecture

  1. Reference ArchitectureCourse Pass
  2. Model GatewayCourse Pass
  3. Context and RAGCourse Pass
  4. State and MemoryCourse Pass
  5. Sync and Async PathsCourse Pass
  6. StreamingCourse Pass
  7. CachingCourse Pass
  8. Multi-tenancyCourse Pass
  9. Data LifecycleCourse Pass

Part 3 · Operate the System

  1. ReliabilityCourse Pass
  2. Graceful DegradationCourse Pass
  3. ObservabilityCourse Pass
  4. EvaluationCourse Pass
  5. SecurityCourse Pass
  6. Privacy and GovernanceCourse Pass
  7. Scaling and BackpressureCourse Pass
  8. Regional ResilienceCourse Pass

Part 4 · Defend the Design

  1. Interview MethodCourse Pass
  2. Discovery QuestionsCourse Pass
  3. Whiteboard SequenceCourse Pass
  4. Trade-off NarrativeCourse Pass
  5. Back-of-envelope MathCourse Pass
  6. Worked Support CopilotFree
  7. Global Assistant CapstoneCourse Pass

Architecture Studio

  1. Capacity LabCourse Pass
  2. Trust Gateway LabCourse Pass
  3. Resilience LabCourse Pass
  4. Challenge · Capacity PlanCourse Pass
  5. Assessment and InterviewCourse Pass
  6. ReferencesCourse Pass