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