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Backend Engineering

APIs, authentication, databases, queues, serverless and production backend systems

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API Design
beginner
Design a RESTful API following best practices
Auth & Authorisation
intermediate
Implement JWT auth with refresh tokens
Database Integration
intermediate
Use an ORM (Prisma, SQLAlchemy, Drizzle)
Backend Performance
advanced
Implement Redis caching for hot data
Microservices Patterns
advanced
Decompose a monolith into microservices
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Memory Management Unit
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Offloading CPU Intensive to threads
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Translation Lookaside buffer
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Why h2 takes needs more CPU
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Why nobody watches YouTube tutorials anymore
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Postgres async worker pool
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Postgres async worker pool
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System calls need a context switch
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Multi Level Paging is really a radix tree
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