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What type classes are, why they help, and how given, using, and context bounds work. Then apply the pattern to...
Understand how pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and preference optimization shape an LLM, where RLHF fits, and why alignment is more than...
Avoid the PostgreSQL-to-Kafka dual-write gap with a transactional outbox. A practical walkthrough of Debezium CDC, idempotent consumers, ordering, and recovery.
A practical introduction to functional programming and Cats in Scala: pure functions, type classes, and validation with Either and ValidatedNel.
Understand context-window limits, token budgets, prompt placement, and lost-in-the-middle. Learn how to select evidence and build reliable conversational state.
Choose Kafka or RabbitMQ by retention, replay, routing, ordering, retries, and delivery semantics. Includes Share Groups, Streams, and failure diagrams.
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Senior Technical ArchitectI build and explain backend systems, from Scala and JVM internals to distributed systems and practical AI engineering.
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