Fundamentals of Software Caching

Software caching explained: why caches speed up systems, where they fail, and how to think about freshness, consistency, and cache misses.
Diagram showing requests flowing through cache hits and misses, with freshness checks and eviction.

Fundamentals of Agile Software Development

Agile software development fundamentals: iterative development, collaboration, and responding to change. Build software that delivers value continuously.
Diagram showing availability workflow from redundancy through health checks to graceful degradation

Fundamentals of CI/CD and Release Engineering

CI/CD and release engineering fundamentals: automation, feedback loops, deployment strategies, and why continuous integration prevents integration hell.
Diagram showing CI/CD workflow from code commit through automated testing to deployment

Fundamentals of Software Availability

Software availability explained: uptime metrics, redundancy patterns, health checks, and graceful degradation for keeping systems accessible.
Diagram showing availability workflow from redundancy through health checks to graceful degradation

Fundamentals of Capacity Planning

Learn capacity planning fundamentals: how to predict resource needs, avoid over-provisioning, and scale systems efficiently. Essential guide for engineers and operations teams.
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Fundamentals of Software Scalability

Software scalability fundamentals: how systems handle increased load, why scalability matters, and when to scale horizontally vs vertically.
Cover image showing scalability concepts: horizontal and vertical scaling patterns for distributed systems.

Fundamentals of Privacy and Compliance

Privacy and compliance fundamentals: protect user data, meet legal requirements, and build systems defensible in an audit.
Diagram showing privacy and compliance fundamentals, including data protection, legal requirements, and security measures.

What Is Jitter?

Jitter is timing variation that creates bursts and tail latency. Understand measured jitter, backoff jitter, and why it matters in retries.
Diagram showing how small timing variation spreads retries over time instead of creating synchronized bursts.

Fundamentals of Software Performance

End-to-end software performance fundamentals: latency, throughput, percentiles, bottlenecks, and measuring user-perceived speed without breaking reliability.
Diagram showing the performance loop: measure, explain, change one thing, verify.

Fundamentals of Software Quality Assurance

Software quality assurance fundamentals, why QA exists, how it differs from testing, and how teams build quality into how they work.
Abstract illustration showing a feedback loop for software quality: prevention, detection, and learning.