Systems Drawn

Systems, Drawn is a place to learn how distributed systems really behave, and how they break, one diagram at a time.

Each deep dive takes one reliability topic (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, load shedding, queues, real postmortems) and draws it step by step, with every number sourced so you can check it yourself.

You're welcome here whether you're just getting curious about backend systems or you've been on call for years. Nobody gets it all right. If we get something wrong, say so in the comments. Corrections and better examples from the community are how these videos improve, and we credit them.

What you get:
- 2 long-form deep dives a month, plus short clips
- Free, editable diagram packs (D2 + SVG, CC BY 4.0) for every video: https://github.com/liverandomm/systems-diagram-packs
- Sources linked in every description

Pull up a chair and learn with us.