Missing Deep Learning Tracks

These are full learning tracks that deserve their own dedicated roadmap.

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Operating System Mastery

Learn everything about operating systems.

Topics:

• Computer Architecture
• CPU Architecture
• Boot Process
• BIOS
• UEFI
• Kernel
• Kernel Modules
• Memory Management
• Paging
• Virtual Memory
• NUMA
• Scheduling Algorithms
• Process Management
• Threading
• Signals
• Synchronization
• IPC
• Shared Memory
• Semaphores
• Mutex
• Futex
• cgroups
• Namespaces
• Containers Internals
• eBPF
• io_uring
• Device Drivers
• Filesystems
• ext4
• XFS
• Btrfs
• ZFS
• Network Stack
• Linux Performance
• Kernel Debugging

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Computer Networking Deep Dive

(Not just CCNA level)

Topics:

• Ethernet
• Switching
• Routing
• BGP
• OSPF
• MPLS
• VXLAN
• EVPN
• SDN
• NFV
• Anycast
• Multicast
• TCP Internals
• QUIC
• Congestion Control
• DNS Internals
• TLS Internals
• HTTP/3
• Load Balancing Algorithms
• CDN Architecture

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Database Internals Mastery

Topics:

• B+ Trees
• LSM Trees
• MVCC
• WAL
• Transactions
• Locking
• Query Optimizer
• Cost Based Optimizer
• Storage Engine
• Index Internals
• Replication
• Sharding
• Distributed Transactions
• Consensus
• Recovery
• Compression

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Storage Systems Mastery

Topics:

• RAID
• SAN
• NAS
• Object Storage
• Block Storage
• Ceph
• GlusterFS
• BeeGFS
• Lustre
• NVMe
• SSD Internals
• Filesystem Design

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Cloud Architecture Mastery

Topics:

• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Multi Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud
• Cloud Networking
• Cloud Security
• IAM
• Service Mesh
• Cloud Native Design
• Disaster Recovery
• Multi Region Design

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Kubernetes Internals

(Not Kubernetes usage)

Topics:

• kube-apiserver
• Scheduler
• Controller Manager
• kubelet
• kube-proxy
• CRI
• CSI
• CNI
• etcd
• Admission Controllers
• Operators
• CRDs
• Scheduler Framework
• API Machinery

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Container Runtime Mastery

Topics:

• OCI
• runc
• containerd
• CRI-O
• Podman
• Buildah
• OverlayFS
• cgroups
• Namespaces
• seccomp
• AppArmor
• SELinux

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Platform Engineering

Topics:

• Internal Developer Platform
• Golden Paths
• Platform APIs
• Self Service
• GitOps
• IDP Architecture
• Developer Experience
• Crossplane
• Backstage
• ArgoCD

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Topics:

• SLI
• SLO
• SLA
• Error Budgets
• Incident Response
• Capacity Planning
• Chaos Engineering
• Reliability Engineering
• Disaster Recovery

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Infrastructure Architecture

Topics:

• Enterprise Infrastructure
• Data Centers
• Racks
• Servers
• Power
• Cooling
• Network Fabric
• Spine Leaf
• Storage Networks

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Distributed Systems Research

Topics:

• Paxos
• Raft
• Chubby
• Bigtable
• Dynamo
• Spanner
• CRDT
• Byzantine Consensus
• Gossip
• Vector Clocks

Read every famous research paper.

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Design Patterns Mastery

Topics:

• GoF Patterns
• Enterprise Patterns
• Microservice Patterns
• Cloud Patterns
• DDD
• Hexagonal
• Onion
• CQRS
• Event Sourcing

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Enterprise Architecture

Topics:

• TOGAF
• Zachman
• Architecture Governance
• Enterprise Integration
• SOA
• Event Driven Enterprise

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DevSecOps

Topics:

• Supply Chain Security
• SBOM
• SAST
• DAST
• RASP
• Container Security
• Kubernetes Security
• Secrets
• Vault
• Compliance

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CI/CD Mastery

Topics:

• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• GitLab CI
• ArgoCD
• FluxCD
• Progressive Delivery
• Canary
• Blue Green

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Observability Engineering

Topics:

• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Loki
• Tempo
• Jaeger
• eBPF
• Performance Engineering

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API Architecture

Topics:

• REST
• GraphQL
• gRPC
• Async APIs
• API Gateway
• Service Mesh

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Event Driven Architecture

Topics:

• Kafka
• Pulsar
• RabbitMQ
• NATS
• Event Sourcing
• CQRS
• Saga

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Performance Engineering

Topics:

• Benchmarking
• Profiling
• CPU Profiling
• Memory Profiling
• Flamegraphs
• Load Testing
• Stress Testing
• Capacity Planning

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AI Infrastructure Engineering (NEW)

Topics:

• GPU Architecture
• CUDA
• ROCm
• NCCL
• Distributed Training
• Model Serving
• Triton
• Ray
• Kubeflow
• MLFlow
• Vector Databases
• Feature Store
• RAG Infrastructure
• AI Gateway
• Prompt Gateway
• AI Observability
• AI Security

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MLOps Mastery

Topics:

• ML Pipelines
• Model Registry
• Experiment Tracking
• Feature Engineering
• Data Validation
• Drift Detection
• Continuous Training
• AI Deployment

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Data Engineering

Topics:

• Spark
• Flink
• Hadoop
• Airflow
• dbt
• Kafka
• Lakehouse
• Delta Lake
• Iceberg
• Hudi

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AI Agents Engineering

Topics:

• Agent Architecture
• Tool Calling
• Memory
• MCP
• RAG
• Multi Agent Systems
• Planning
• Reflection
• Agent Security

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LLM Engineering

Topics:

• Transformers
• Attention
• Embeddings
• Tokenization
• Fine Tuning
• RLHF
• LoRA
• Quantization
• Inference
• Prompt Engineering
• Model Optimization

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Cybersecurity Engineering

Topics:

• Offensive Security
• Defensive Security
• Zero Trust
• IAM
• PKI
• SIEM
• SOC
• Threat Hunting
• Incident Response

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Software Architecture

Topics:

• Clean Architecture
• Hexagonal
• DDD
• SOLID
• Event Driven
• Reactive Systems
• Enterprise Design

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Programming Language Internals

Topics:

• Python Internals
• Go Runtime
• JVM
• CLR
• Rust Ownership
• Memory Model
• Garbage Collection

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Compiler Engineering

Topics:

• Lexing
• Parsing
• AST
• LLVM
• Bytecode
• Optimization
• JIT
• AOT

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Hardware for Engineers

Topics:

• CPU
• GPU
• NUMA
• Cache
• Memory
• SSD
• NVMe
• NIC
• DPU
• SmartNIC

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Research Papers Mastery

Study every important paper from:

• Google
• Amazon
• Meta
• Microsoft
• Netflix
• Uber
• Cloudflare
• CNCF
• ACM
• USENIX