EngineeringAdvanced
TypeScript at Scale
Marcus Chen
4.8(476)
10h
21 lessons
Marcus Chen goes deep into the TypeScript type system — the parts that matter for real production codebases, not the parts that show up in blog posts.
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EngineeringAdvanced
Distributed Systems Fundamentals
Consistency, availability, partition tolerance — and the trade-offs that define real systems
Marcus Chen teaches distributed systems with the rigour of a Google SRE and the clarity of someone who has had to explain production incidents at 3am.
4.8(623 reviews)
4,984 learners enrolled
14h total
8 lessons
Marcus Chen
Staff Engineer, Infrastructure
$299one-time
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What you'll learn
- Reason about CAP theorem trade-offs in real product decisions
- Design fault-tolerant distributed architectures
- Implement consensus algorithms and understand their failure modes
- Build observability into distributed systems from day one
- Conduct post-mortem analysis using structured incident review
Curriculum
3 modules · 8 lessons · 14h total
- Why distribution is hard: fallacies of distributed computing25 minPreview
- CAP theorem: precision over mythology31 min
- Clocks, time, and ordering in distributed systems28 min
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Comfortable reading code in at least one statically typed language
- Basic understanding of networking (TCP/IP, HTTP)
About the instructor
Marcus Chen
Staff Engineer, Infrastructure
Ex-Google SRE · Open-source maintainer · Author of 'Distributed by Design'
Marcus Chen spent eight years at Google's SRE division, where he led the reliability strategy for Search infrastructure serving billions of queries per day. He is the creator of FluxGate, an open-source distributed tracing tool with 40k GitHub stars, and the author of 'Distributed by Design', a book cited in computer science curricula at MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon. His courses are dense, precise, and deliberately paced — he believes in explaining the 'why' before the 'how', and in building mental models that survive contact with real production systems.
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“The CAP theorem lesson is the clearest explanation I have ever encountered, and I've read the original paper multiple times. Marcus finds the exact level of abstraction where things become intuitive.”