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System design cheat sheet
Systems that scale.
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- 1Core concepts: scale, latency and availability
- 2Load balancing, proxies, CDNs and caching
- Databases: models, indexes and transactions
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- 10 chapters
- 79 concepts
Cheat sheets for AI and LLM apps, machine learning, cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, data engineering and security, in plain words with real pitfalls.
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Go deep in one area of engineering.
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Systems that scale.
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Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.
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SQL, spreadsheets, dashboards, insight.
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Build products on LLMs and generative AI.
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Data, models, deep learning.
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Manual testing to automated suites.
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Pipelines, warehouses, Spark, dbt.
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Defend systems, test them, secure code.
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Statistics, pandas, ML, experiments.
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Tool calling, MCP servers, evals.
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Ship, serve and monitor models.
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One cloud in depth, with certifications.
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SLOs, observability, Kubernetes platforms.
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Routing, switching, CCNA, cloud networks.
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Secure LLM apps and agents, test models safely.
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Inventory, oversight, EU AI Act, ISO 42001.
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Read the bill, cut waste, forecast spend.
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Images, Dockerfiles, caching, small secure builds, volumes, networks, Compose, registries and debugging containers.
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Clusters, kubectl, workloads, Services, Gateway API, config, probes, scaling, storage, RBAC, Helm and debugging.
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The AWS services and ideas you use to build, secure, run and pay for real workloads, with CLI commands and policy JSON.
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Building on OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs: prompts, streaming, structured output, tools, RAG, caching, cost, evals and safety.
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How MCP connects AI applications to tools and data: hosts and servers, messages, transports, auth, building servers and staying safe.
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Embeddings, similarity metrics, ANN indexes, filtering, hybrid search, reranking, RAG chunking, pgvector, dedicated stores and evaluation.
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RAG pipelines, retrieval quality, agents, tools, memory and evaluation in Python, with LangChain and LangGraph or LlamaIndex.
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