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Scale, storage, and the trade-offs behind every large system.

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  • Cybersecurity

    Application security, auth, and defending real systems in production.

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    How large language models work and how to build on them.

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    Boundaries, modules, and decisions that keep codebases alive.

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  • Distributed Systems

    Consensus, replication, and why the network is never reliable.

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    When to split, how to connect, and what it really costs.

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    The models, the math, and the systems that serve them.

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