1. Capstones

Curriculum

Capstones

End-to-end walkthroughs that stitch several topics into one real system flow

End-to-End Walkthroughs

URL → Rendered Page

One request end to end: DNS, TCP, TLS, HTTP, and the cache — every layer in motion.

DNS→TLS→HTTP

SQL Query → Disk Read

From a query to bytes on disk: parser, plan, B+ tree index, and the page cache.

Parser→B+Tree

Handwritten Digit → Prediction

Pixels to a label: the drawing, the MLP forward pass, softmax, and the confidence bars.

Pixels→Softmax

Message → Distributed Consensus

One write agreed across machines: the network, replication, and a Raft commit.

Network→Raft