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14 hrs

System Design

Design systems that hold up under load, failure and five years of change.

Level: Advanced46 lessonsView path
11 hrs

Software Architecture

Boundaries, layering and the decisions that decide how changeable a codebase is.

Level: Advanced39 lessonsView path
7 hrs

API Design

REST, RPC and events — designing interfaces you will not regret shipping.

Level: Intermediate29 lessonsView path
13 hrs

Algorithms & Data Structures

The reasoning behind complexity, so you pick the right structure without guessing.

Level: Intermediate54 lessonsView path
12 hrs

Programming Foundations

The language-agnostic core: types, memory, concurrency and control flow.

Level: Beginner51 lessonsView path
18 hrs

React

The interactive way to master modern React, hooks and all.

Level: Intermediate64 lessonsView path

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Plenty of courses promise to teach you a technology, then hand you a folder of pre-built files and a certificate. You finish with a working demo and no idea why any of it works.

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Investigation · 8 min read

The Internet Is More Fragile Than You Think

A handful of companies, a few thousand BGP routes and one expired certificate stand between you and a working internet. Here is how thin the margin really is.

Investigation · 8 min read

Inside the GitHub Outage: What Really Happened?

43 seconds of network partition, 24 hours of degraded service, and one of the clearest postmortems ever published. A walkthrough of how a database split-brain unfolds.

Systems · 8 min read

What Happens When You Type google.com?

The classic interview question, taken seriously: every hop from keystroke to painted pixel, including the parts most answers skip.

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Featured · Career · 17 min

The developer roadmap, condensed

Every path from beginner to shipping engineer, in one sitting.

  • React · 2 min

    React in 100 seconds

    The mental model behind components, state and re-renders.

  • TypeScript · 13 min

    TypeScript, the fast tour

    Types that pay for themselves before lunch.

  • JavaScript · 9 min

    The event loop, visualised

    Microtasks, macrotasks, and why your await ordering surprises you.

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