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Topics

The territory of software engineering, surveyed the same way: what happens, why it happens, and what breaks when it doesn't.

How complexity, data structures, and time really scale.

What the machine actually does with your code.

Servers, protocols, and the request lifecycle.

Storage engines, indexes, and transactions from the inside.

The distance between two machines, in packets.

The kernel's view of your program.

What changes when one node is never enough.

Making tradeoffs visible before they become outages.

Servers, containers, and the abstractions on top.

The decisions that ripple through every file.