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Observability — Logs, Metrics, and Traces

Implementing the three pillars with OpenTelemetry and making them actionable.

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Apache Kafka — Core Concepts and When to Use It

Topics, partitions, consumer groups, and the use cases where Kafka excels.

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Background Job Queue Design

Idempotency, retries, dead letter queues, and job observability.

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The Twelve-Factor App — Principles for Modern Services

How the twelve factors apply to real production services today.

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Amazon Redshift — Architecture and Query Optimization

Distribution styles, sort keys, VACUUM, ANALYZE, and WLM tuning.

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Monitoring and Alerting for Data Pipelines

What to monitor, SLIs/SLOs for data, and building effective alerting.

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DORA Metrics — Measuring Engineering Delivery Performance

Deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate in practice.

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Microservices Communication — Sync vs Async Patterns

REST, gRPC, message queues, and choosing the right pattern for each interaction.

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Data & Platform — Service Overview

Pipelines, vector stores, governance, and privacy-first data design.

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Message Queue Patterns — SQS, RabbitMQ, and Dead Letter Queues

Fan-out, work queues, priority queues, and poison message handling.

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