Defining System Requirements — A System Design Deep Dive (Part 1 of 2)

🎯 Event Title:
Defining System Requirements — A System Design Deep Dive (Part 1 of 2)

📍 Event Description:

Designing robust, scalable systems starts with one essential step: defining system requirements.

Whether you're preparing for system design interviews or architecting production-grade systems, being able to clearly define what your system must do — and under what constraints — is what separates good engineers from great ones.

This two-part series will guide you through both foundational and advanced aspects of defining system requirements in real-world scenarios.

In Part 1, we’ll focus on the core functional and availability requirements.
In Part 2, we’ll dive into non-functional trade-offs, scalability, and operational aspects like security and cost.

🧠 What You’ll Learn:
✅ What system requirements are — and why they are essential in system design
✅ How to structure and prioritize functional vs non-functional requirements
✅ Techniques to define availability, resilience, and fault tolerance
✅ Deep dives into scalability, performance, consistency models, and cost trade-offs
✅ A reusable checklist you can apply to any system design problem

📘 Session Breakdown

🔹 Session 1: Foundation & Core Requirements
Goal: Understand essential system behaviors and high-level availability expectations.
Topics Covered:
• Welcome & Series Intro
• System Requirements Overview
• Functional Requirements
• High Availability
• Fault Tolerance, Resilience, Reliability
• Wrap-Up & Q&A

🔹 Session 2: Scaling, Guarantees & Trade-offs
Goal: Explore non-functional requirements for scaling, durability, and long-term operation.
Topics Covered:
• Recap of Session 1
• Scalability
• Performance & Latency
• Durability & Consistency
• Maintainability, Security, Cost
• Final Summary & Open Discussion

📅 This is a two-part connected series. We recommend attending both sessions to get the full value, as Part 2 builds directly on the foundations from Part 1.

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👩🏻‍🏫Speakers and Mentors of the Study Group:

Shailaja Koppu | LinkedIn
Liliiia Rafikova | LinkedIn

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