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Infrastructure & AI system design

Good decisions. Better interviews.

From queues and databases to AI inference.

The interview pipeline
A very important packet.
A playful interview-preparation journeyA GET offer packet travels from you through learning and practice toward an offer envelope. The illustration expresses an aspiration, not a guaranteed outcome.YoucoffeeoptionalLearnconnect theboxesPracticeexplain thewhyOffer“It depends…”The goal
A playful interview-preparation journeyA GET offer packet travels from you through learning and practice toward an offer envelope. The illustration expresses an aspiration, not a guaranteed outcome.YoucoffeeoptionalLearnget thewhyPracticeexplain thewhyOffer“It depends…”The goal

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Design a telemetry ingestion and query serviceFree
Design an inference batching serviceFree

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9 deep dives
When to add a queueFree
Backpressure and capacityFree
Processing slots, threads, and concurrencyFree
Idempotency and retriesFree
Cursor paginationFree
Choosing a data modelFree
Indexes and write costFree
Transaction boundariesFree
Bulk database writesFree