--- title: System Design Series | daily.dev description: An introductory series on system design covering fundamental concepts needed to build scalable systems supporting millions of users. Based on learnings from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-series-hlsdxln1a twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: System Design Series | daily.dev og:description: An introductory series on system design covering fundamental concepts needed to build scalable systems supporting millions of users. Based on learnings from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-series-hlsdxln1a og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hlSDXlN1A.png og:image:alt: System Design Series og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # System Design Series **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An introductory series on system design covering fundamental concepts needed to build scalable systems supporting millions of users. Based on learnings from Alex Xu's System Design Interview book and Designing Data-Intensive Applications, the series covers basic components, back-of-the-envelope estimation, steps to approach system design interviews, and designing a rate limiter. Each chapter is paired with a live side project example. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Learn Software System Design](https://daily.dev/posts/learn-software-system-design-9sdfiugrl) · freeCodeCamp · 364 upvotes · 21 comments - [A Stranger Things Guide To System Design](https://daily.dev/posts/a-stranger-things-guide-to-system-design-xvgjfwphy) · Code Like A Girl · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-series-hlsdxln1a) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"System Design Series","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-series-hlsdxln1a","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-series-hlsdxln1a"},"datePublished":"2026-07-22T17:53:30.113Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T21:54:22.962Z","description":"An introductory series on system design covering fundamental concepts needed to build scalable systems supporting millions of users. Based on learnings from...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/d6ab0a9a223ee01bc82d647f54feb2d2?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/d6ab0a9a223ee01bc82d647f54feb2d2?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Medium","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Medium","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/medium","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-series-hlsdxln1a","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"career,distributed-systems","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Medium","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"System Design Series"}]} ```