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Foundations

The honest filter on certs, courses, DSA, system design, and AI engineering.

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Which certs actually matter (and which to skip)

Which developer certifications recruiters actually filter for in 2026 — AWS SAA, CKAD, Terraform Associate — and which ones (Coursera, Udemy bundles) are a waste of money and time.

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AWS certs done right: SAA and Developer Associate

How to pass AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) and Developer Associate from India — the Stephane Maarek + Tutorials Dojo combo, exam-day VPN tips, and the order that works.

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Free resources that beat paid bootcamps

The free curriculum (CS50, The Odin Project, freeCodeCamp, MIT 6.006) that outperforms Scaler/Masai/Newton — what to do in what order to land remote jobs from India.

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System design roundup + DDIA — the only path that works

How to actually learn system design for remote interviews — Designing Data-Intensive Applications, ByteByteGo, and the 30-system list. Why one-week crash courses fail.

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LLM / AI engineering path: RAG, agents, MCP

The 2026 AI engineering path for Indian devs — RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, Anthropic MCP, evals. What to build, what to skip (fine-tuning), and which roles hire.

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LeetCode patterns that actually show up + the 20-min struggle method

The 14 LeetCode patterns covering 80% of remote interview questions, plus the 20-minute struggle-then-solution method that actually builds problem-solving (not memorization).

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Learn-by-building tracks: build an MCP server, build a RAG pipeline

Skip tutorial hell. The 4 build-tracks (MCP server, RAG pipeline, payments integration, realtime app) that teach more than any course and double as portfolio.

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Run your own 60-day job-search sprint

The 60-day sprint structure that turns scattered applying into a measurable system — weekly targets, daily cadence, kill-criteria, and the dashboard that prevents burnout.

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