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A lesson that teaches, then checks

Lesson navigation with accumulating progress, three short readings, and a two-question check that explains every answer — including the wrong ones, because the explanation is the product.

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What the browser test drives: Read a lesson and mark it complete, watch the sidebar percentage move, answer both questions, press Check my answers and read the reasoning for a correct and an incorrect choice.
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What a queue promises

A queue is a promise that somebody will get to the work later. The promise is cheap to make and expensive to keep, because everything waiting in it has to be owned, monitored and eventually explained.

Before adding a queue, write the sentence that says what happens when it is full. If the sentence is hard to write, the queue is a hope rather than a design.

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A consumer is ten times slower than its producer. Which change actually removes the risk?

A bigger buffer

A backpressure signal the producer obeys

More consumers

Which sentence belongs in a design review?

The queue absorbs the burst

At 40,000 events a second we drop analytics before retries

Answer both questions to see the explanation for each.

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