Volume 03 of 03

The Modern Frontier: Scale, Intelligence, and What Comes Next

Connect advanced system design, data engineering, AI, privacy, emerging interfaces, and technology's wider effects without losing the simple mental models.

This volume

Chapter index

10 chapters

  1. Chapter 0110/10 publishedSystems at Scale 201-210Finding the Real Bottleneck: Optimize the Constrained Path51 min
  2. Chapter 0210/10 publishedModern Data Systems 211-220Data Warehouses: Separating Analysis from Live Transactions53 min
  3. Chapter 0310/10 publishedMachine Learning 221-230Supervised Learning: Learning a Mapping from Examples52 min
  4. Chapter 0410/10 publishedGenerative AI Systems 231-240Tokens and Context Windows: The Working Space of a Language Model57 min
  5. Chapter 0510/10 publishedSecurity and Privacy 241-250Threat Modeling: Reasoning about Attacks before They Become Incidents50 min
  6. Chapter 0610/10 publishedEmerging Computing 251-260Internet of Things: Long-Lived Distributed Systems in the Physical World50 min
  7. Chapter 0710/10 publishedTechnology and Society 261-270Platform Network Effects: When Participation Changes Product Value50 min
  8. Chapter 0810/10 publishedDigital Economics 271-280How Free Apps Make Money: Follow the Revenue and Incentives50 min
  9. Chapter 095/10 publishedResponsible Futures 281-290Automation and Jobs: Follow the Tasks, Transitions, and Distribution25 min
  10. Chapter 1010 outlinedSynthesis 291-300How can you evaluate a bold claim about a new product or breakthrough?0 min