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Quiz8 questions

What is the key behavioral difference between a message queue and a pub/sub topic?

AA queue delivers each message to exactly one consumer in a group; a topic delivers a copy to every subscriberBA queue is always slower than a topicCA topic never persists messagesDThere is no functional difference

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Software · L3 · Message Queues & Event-Driven Communication

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Software · L3 · Message Queues & Event-Driven Communication

Quiz5 questions

What is the first major thing SpringApplication.run() creates?

AThe ApplicationContextBThe embedded Tomcat serverCA CommandLineRunner beanDThe application.properties file

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Software · L1 · Spring Boot: Application Lifecycle & Logging

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Software · L1 · Spring Boot: Application Lifecycle & Logging

Collection2 items

01Internals & Architecture

02Production Node

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Software · L4 · Node.js

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Software · L4 · Node.js

Flashcards10 cards

What does an atomic operation guarantee?1 / 10

It executes as a single indivisible step relative to other threads — no other thread can observe a partial or interleaved intermediate state.

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Atomics & Memory Model

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Atomics & Memory Model

Flashcards10 cards

What are the three pillars of observability?1 / 10

Metrics, logs, and traces: metrics are aggregated numeric measurements, logs are discrete timestamped events, and traces follow a request across services.

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Observability & Monitoring

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Observability & Monitoring

Quiz5 questions

When does middleware.ts run relative to a matched route?

ABefore the route's page or route handler code executesBAfter the page has already renderedCOnly when the route throws an errorDOnly during the production build, never at request time

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Software · L2 · Next.js: Middleware & Edge Runtime

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Software · L2 · Next.js: Middleware & Edge Runtime

Collection4 items

01Hooks

02State & Context

03Software · L2 · React: Effect Lifecycle

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Software · L2 · React

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Software · L2 · React

Note~852 words · 4 min

Dataflow Analysis as Fixpoint Computation Classical dataflow analysis attaches, to each point in a control-flow graph, an abstract fact drawn from a lattice (L, ⊑, ⊔, ⊓) — a partial order with meet and join. Each statement or CFG edge has a

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Software · L5 · Program Analysis & Abstract Interpretation

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Software · L5 · Program Analysis & Abstract Interpretation

Flashcards10 cards

What does a RepaintBoundary do at the layer level, and when does it actually help?1 / 10

It inserts its own `OffsetLayer` so its subtree is rasterized into a separate retained layer; a repaint inside it does not dirty siblings, and a sibling's repaint does not dirty it. It helps when a small region animates frequently (e.g. a progress spinner) so the static rest of the screen is not re-recorded each frame — but adding boundaries everywhere wastes memory and composite time.

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Performance, Slivers & Custom Rendering

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Performance, Slivers & Custom Rendering

Collection2 items

01Serverless & Lambda

02Storage & Content Delivery

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Software · L3 · AWS

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Software · L3 · AWS

Flashcards8 cards

When would you choose a hash map over a balanced BST?1 / 8

Hash map for O(1) average lookups when you only need exact-match and ordering doesn't matter. BST (O(log n)) when you need sorted traversal, range queries, or predecessor/successor lookups.

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Structures & Trade-offs

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Structures & Trade-offs

Collection2 items

01Anti-Patterns & Pattern Trade-offs

02Architectural & Concurrency Patterns

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Software · L4 · Design Patterns

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Software · L4 · Design Patterns

Collection5 items

01Networking & VPC

02Databases (RDS & DynamoDB)

03Security & IAM

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Software · L2 · AWS

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Software · L2 · AWS

Flowchart7 objects

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Software · L2 · Concurrency: Choosing a Synchronization Primitive · flowchart

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Software · L2 · Concurrency: Choosing a Synchronization Primitive · flowchart

Note~115 words · 1 min

One Dockerfile, Many Running Containers An image only becomes useful once it moves — from your machine, to a registry, to wherever it needs to run. Each stage has its own command and its own output. The registry is the handoff point: it's t

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Software · L1 · Docker & Kubernetes: Image Build & Deploy Lifecycle

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Software · L1 · Docker & Kubernetes: Image Build & Deploy Lifecycle

Flashcards10 cards

What is the difference between `==` and `.equals()` in Java?1 / 10

`==` compares references (whether two variables point to the same object) for objects, or values for primitives. `.equals()` compares logical equality and should be overridden for value comparison. Always use `.equals()` for Strings and objects.

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Core Java

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Core Java

Flashcards10 cards

Mechanically, how does interactive rebase apply the todo list you edit?1 / 10

Git writes the todo to `.git/rebase-merge/` and processes one line at a time, cherry-picking each `pick`/`edit`/`squash`/`fixup`/`reword`. On `edit` or a conflict it stops with HEAD detached at that point; `--continue` resumes from the saved state. The original branch tip is preserved as `ORIG_HEAD` and in the reflog.

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History Rewriting, Recovery & Advanced Workflows

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History Rewriting, Recovery & Advanced Workflows

Quiz8 questions

Which of these disqualifies a function from being pure?

ATaking more than one argumentBReturning a new object instead of a primitiveCReading the current system time inside the function bodyDBeing called more than once in a program

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Software · L3 · Functional Programming Concepts

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Software · L3 · Functional Programming Concepts

Flowchart13 objects

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Software · L4 · Designing a REST API · flowchart

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Software · L4 · Designing a REST API · flowchart

Quiz5 questions

You want to add `Point.from_tuple((3, 4))` as an alternative way to build a Point. Which decorator fits?

A@staticmethodB@classmethodC@propertyDNo decorator — use a plain instance method

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Software · L2 · Python: classmethod vs staticmethod vs Instance Method

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Software · L2 · Python: classmethod vs staticmethod vs Instance Method

Collection4 items

01Docker

02Docker Compose Fundamentals

03Software · L1 · Docker & Kubernetes: Image Build & Deploy Lifecycle

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Software · L1 · Docker & Kubernetes

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Software · L1 · Docker & Kubernetes

Flashcards10 cards

What does the `synchronized` keyword guarantee?1 / 10

It provides mutual exclusion on a monitor lock so only one thread executes the guarded block per object, and establishes happens-before visibility for changes made inside it.

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Concurrency & Threads

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Concurrency & Threads

Flowchart16 objects

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Software · L5 · CAP Theorem Trade-offs

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Software · L5 · CAP Theorem Trade-offs

Flashcards10 cards

What makes Dart's null safety *sound*, and what runtime cost does that soundness avoid?1 / 10

Soundness means a non-nullable static type provably never holds null at runtime, so the compiler can omit null checks the type guarantees away — enabling smaller, faster code and unboxed representations. It is enforced end-to-end: there is no `dynamic`-style escape hatch that silently introduces null into a non-nullable type without a checked cast or `!`.

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Type System, Null Safety & Compilation

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Type System, Null Safety & Compilation

Note~594 words · 3 min

Queues vs Pub/Sub A message queue distributes work: each message is delivered to exactly one consumer from a competing pool, so adding consumers increases throughput. A pub/sub topic broadcasts: every subscriber gets its own copy of each me

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Software · L3 · Message Queues & Event-Driven Communication

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Software · L3 · Message Queues & Event-Driven Communication

Flowchart11 objects

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Software · L1 · Google Cloud: Storage & Database Options · flowchart

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Software · L1 · Google Cloud: Storage & Database Options · flowchart

Flowchart9 objects

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Web & REST Controllers · flowchart

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Web & REST Controllers · flowchart

Quiz5 questions

What problem does state locking specifically prevent?

ASlow terraform plan performanceBTwo concurrent applies corrupting or conflicting on the same stateCProvider version mismatchesDForgetting to run terraform init

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