Syswise vs Don't Break Prod

Answer one system design question a day. Read why the answer is right. Close the app. Syswise is a question bank with a path running through it. You start on scalability basics and work forward: caching, queues, sharding, consistency. Each unit is a short session of multiple choice questions taken from real interview scenarios, and every question ends with a written explanation of the correct answer and of the ones you did not pick. Sessions run about ten minutes. That is deliberate. Nobody learns distributed systems in a weekend, but you can keep the concepts warm until the interview. WHAT IS INSIDE A path with sections and checkpoints, so you always know what comes next. Four practice modes: review your mistakes, drill your weakest topics, spaced cards that have come due, and a daily challenge. A readiness score built from your own practice, broken down by average mastery, weakest quarter and topic coverage. A streak, a daily goal and a league, if that is what gets you to open the app. WHO IT IS FOR Engineers with a system design round on the calendar. Also anyone who has been hand waving about caches and queues for years and would rather stop. PREMIUM Premium turns your weak areas into an ordered 7 day plan and lifts the session uptime limit. The path itself is free, and the uptime limit resets on its own if you would rather wait. Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, offered weekly and annually. Premium Weekly is 4.99 USD per week and Premium Annual is 39.99 USD per year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy policy: https://syswise.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://syswise.app/terms-of-use

Don't Break Prod turns system design practice into a daily habit. Every day brings one timed incident: a production system is failing, the clock is running, and you make the calls to bring it back. Diagnose the root cause, mitigate, recover, and harden before the timer hits zero. It is built for engineers preparing for system design and on-call interviews, and for anyone who wants to think more clearly about how real systems break. THE DAILY INCIDENT A new production failure every day, the same one for everyone. A cache that went cold, a queue that will not drain, a cert that expired at midnight, a cache key that leaked one tenant's data into another. Time is short, wrong moves cost you seconds, and your score is the time you have left. One scored run per day. Share your result as a spoiler-free card and compare calls with your team. PRACTICE THAT STICKS Work through core topics at your own pace: caching, load balancing, message queues, databases, sharding, consistency, rate limiting, CDNs, and full design walkthroughs like URL shorteners, chat, and news feeds. Spaced repetition brings back what you are about to forget, right when you need it. THREE WAYS TO ANSWER Multiple choice, fill in the blank, and drag-to-order questions, each written to test whether you understand the tradeoff, not whether you can recognize a term. KEEP YOUR STREAK Show up daily and build a streak of days without breaking prod. Earn failover freezes that quietly cover a missed day. Your whole history lives in Profile as a day-by-day grid: every incident survived, every failover spent, every day the pager won. Compare your all-time score with other players on the Game Center leaderboard. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no ads. Everything you do stays on your device. The leaderboard is optional and runs on Apple's Game Center. Every question is original writing. The concepts are standard system design material, explained plainly, so you leave understanding the why, not just the answer.