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Lesson 11.4

Full end-to-end designs

An end-to-end design uses a time-boxed scaffold to connect clarified requirements and scale to APIs, data, architecture, a focused deep dive, bottlenecks, and explicit trade-offs.

The prompt is broad and the candidate starts drawing services

Ava first asks who orders cookies, how fast they must arrive, and what must never go wrong. Ben draws only the parts needed for those answers.

In this lesson you'll

  1. 1Follow one run and learn how to read the picture
  2. 2Predict what changes before revealing the result
  3. 3Compare the review approaches and gather enough evidence for the next decision