System Design
Advanced
Design Artifact Pack
Turn a system design answer into the artifacts engineers need before implementation starts.
45 min
3 sections
artifacts
design-doc
review
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01. A design is a set of decisions
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In real engineering work, a system design is not just a diagram. It is a decision record with requirements, non-goals, APIs, data ownership, failure modes, rollout steps, SLOs, cost assumptions, and unresolved risks. The artifact pack makes those decisions reviewable.
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Design artifact pack:
- One-page product contract.
- Context and container architecture diagram.
- Sequence diagram for the critical write path.
- API contract with idempotency and error behavior.
- Data model and ownership table.
- Capacity estimate and bottleneck notes.
- Failure-mode table.
- Security and privacy review.
- SLOs, alerts, and dashboards.
- Rollout, migration, rollback, and owner matrix.Back to Course