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The Secret Architecture Behind AI Data Centers
#155: Why AI breakthroughs are really infrastructure breakthroughs
Jun 19
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Neo Kim
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Ashish
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30 Core Agentic Engineering Concepts, Explained Simply
#154: What an agent is, how to configure one, when to use multiple, and how to keep them from doing damage.
Jun 17
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Neo Kim
and
Paul Hoekstra
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How Docker Works - A Deep Dive
#153: Part 2 - DevOps Mastermind
Jun 14
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Neo Kim
and
Ayaan
85
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Designing a Payment Backend with Stripe Integration
#152: The complete engineering blueprint for a Stripe-integrated payment backend
Jun 10
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Hayk
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Neo Kim
71
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The Anatomy of OpenClaw
#151: Understanding How OpenClaw Works
Jun 8
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Neo Kim
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Design Knowledge Q&A System
#150: Part 3 - Generative AI Masterclass
Jun 4
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Louis-François Bouchard
and
Neo Kim
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May 2026
How to get ahead of 99% of software engineers with AI agents
#149: Change your software workflow with AI agents
May 28
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Neo Kim
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How Virtual Machines Work - A Deep Dive
#148: Part 1 - DevOps Mastermind
May 25
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Neo Kim
and
Ayaan
67
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AI Agents: State, Memory, Consistency - A Deep Dive
#147: Understanding State, Memory, and Consistency in AI Agents
May 17
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Neo Kim
and
Sivasankar Natarajan
154
5
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How ML Systems Actually Work: From Data to Deployment
#146: From Embeddings to Feature Stores - 38 Concepts That Power Netflix, Uber, and Spotify
May 12
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Paolo Perrone
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Neo Kim
76
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I struggled with mobile system design until I learned these 53 concepts
#145: Part 2 - Conflict resolution, certificate pinning, rendering performance, and 17 others.
May 7
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Shefali Jangid
and
Neo Kim
48
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Design a personal AI chat assistant
#144: Part 2 - Generative AI Masterclass
May 4
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Neo Kim
and
Louis-François Bouchard
47
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