Curriculum

Backend Depth

Closing the gap between "can build it" and "knows why it behaves this way under concurrency and failure." See MISSION.md for the full why.

Lessons

#LessonReference
1Why three indexes still weren't enoughIndexing cheat sheet
2The balance transfer that goes negativeIsolation cheat sheet
3When the cache expires and the DB falls overCaching cheat sheet
4Connection reuse and RTT costNetworking cheat sheet
5Blocking I/O and the schedulerOS cheat sheet
6The GIL and concurrency modelsConcurrency cheat sheet
7Retries and partial failureFailure models cheat sheet

Other

Start at Lesson 1, go in order. Ask follow-up questions on anything unclear — that's the point.