7-Day Intermediate-to-Advanced
Backend Engineering for the AI Era
Build, scale, and operate production backends that serve both human and AI traffic — APIs and streaming, storage from Postgres to vector stores, caching, queues, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and the patterns that emerged when LLMs became the slowest dependency in your stack.
schedule1h 56mlayers9 chapterssignal_cellular_altIntermediate to Advanced
Day 1
Foundations & API Design
radio_button_uncheckedBackend Foundations
radio_button_uncheckedAPI Design
schedule26 min2 chapters
Day 2
Storage & Caching
radio_button_uncheckedStorage Systems
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schedule24 min2 chapters
Day 3
Concurrency & Async Work
radio_button_uncheckedAsync & Queues
schedule12 min1 chapter
Day 4
Distributed Systems
radio_button_uncheckedDistributed Systems
schedule12 min1 chapter
Day 5
Reliability Engineering
radio_button_uncheckedReliability
schedule14 min1 chapter
Day 6
Observability
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schedule12 min1 chapter
Day 7
The AI-Era Backend
radio_button_uncheckedAI-Era Backend
schedule15 min1 chapter