Book 13 — AI System Design¶
Design Netflix recommendations. Design a production RAG system. Design ChatGPT.
Design Methodology & Architectural Framework¶
- Requirements & data flow
- Architecture & model selection
- Storage & APIs
- Scaling, latency, throughput
- Reliability & security
- Cost & monitoring
- Failure modes
Comprehensive Deep Dive:
Production Case Studies¶
- Large-Scale Recommendation System (Netflix / Spotify / E-Commerce)
- Enterprise Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) System
- High-Throughput Distributed LLM Serving Platform (Design ChatGPT)
Comprehensive Deep Dive:
Mastery Roadmap
Each topic includes comprehensive mathematical formulations, architectural diagrams, capacity estimation tables, API contracts, failure modes, staff-level interview questions, and a 10-level mastery ladder.