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Kafka Engineering

A source-guided course on Kafka protocol internals, platform ownership, KRaft and KIP-848 migrations, compatibility, portability, performance, and production failure boundaries.

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What you'll learn:

✓Read and debug Kafka request framing and version negotiation
✓Trace producer, fetch, replication, compression, and quota behavior
✓Plan KRaft, KIP-848, and portability migrations without false equivalence

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Kafka Engineering

A source-guided course on Kafka protocol internals, platform ownership, KRaft and KIP-848 migrations, compatibility, portability, performance, and production failure boundaries.

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Mermaid Diagrams in Next.js

A journey from over-engineered build-time rendering to elegant client-side solutions. Explores three architectures and learns valuable lessons about premature optimization.

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Tiny Language Models

Master efficient LLMs under 3B parameters—models that match 5× larger competitors on reasoning tasks. From distillation to edge deployment, learn the techniques making AI accessible everywhere.

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NanoChat: Building ChatGPT for $100

Comprehensive technical analysis of Andrej Karpathy's nanochat project. Deep dives into architecture, training pipeline, optimizers, and proposals for evolving this minimal LLM implementation.

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