Advanced Masterclass

Staff Engineer Playbooks

Staff Engineer Playbooks is a guided sequence designed to build your understanding step by step.

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Not just theory. Learn the patterns used at companies like Google, Meta, and Uber.

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Course Curriculum

Core Lessons

10 Lessons
01Production Incident Playbooks: Debugging Latency, Errors, and Traffic Spikes
5 min read
02Chaos Engineering for Data Infrastructure: Testing Distributed Resilience
2 min read
03Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry: End-to-End Observability
11 min read
04TLA+ for Backend Devs: Formally Verifying Distributed Systems
2 min read
05Distributed Snapshots: Chandy-Lamport Algorithm
2 min read
06HyperLogLog at Scale: Billion-Cardinality Estimation
2 min read
07Backpressure Propagation: Designing Flow Control in Microservices
3 min read
08Distributed Transactions Part 1: The Death of ACID
2 min read
09Distributed Transactions Part 3: The Saga Pattern
2 min read
10Distributed Transactions Part 5: The Idempotency Layer
3 min read

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