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LLM architectures, inference servers, sampling, prompt caching, observability.

Attention variants, RoPE, MoE, RMSNorm, MTP, sparse attention, FlashAttention.

RAG, hallucination mitigation, embeddings, evals, prompt engineering, agentic safety.

Tool use, agentic workflows, memory systems, observability, human handoff.

Phi, Qwen, Gemma; on-device inference; distillation; tool-call fine-tunes.

INT8/INT4, GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ, SmoothQuant, FP8 KV cache.

Model Context Protocol — server design, OAuth 2.1, transports, testing patterns.

Agent Development Kit — lifecycle, tools, evals, guardrails, sessions.

Agent-to-agent — discovery, trust models, orchestration, error recovery.

Agent Payment Protocol — subscriptions, settlement, chargebacks, compliance.

Data modeling, consistency, compaction, repair, vector search 5, multi-DC.

Raft, consensus, CRDTs, vector clocks, BFT, quorum systems, 2PC.

Rate limiters, circuit breakers, sharding, real-system blueprints.

Postgres internals, isolation levels, replication, pgvector, DuckDB, CDC.

Kafka, Flink, Pulsar, exactly-once, CDC, tiered storage, backpressure.

Virtual threads, async/await, work-stealing, lock contention, memory models.

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus at scale, SLOs, eBPF, alert fatigue.

mTLS, OAuth+PKCE, passkeys, SBOM, zero trust, K8s pod security.

TLS 1.3, DNS, BBR, anycast, mTLS rotation, service mesh patterns.

gRPC, WebSocket, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, SSE, reconnect strategies, HOL blocking.

Opus, jitter buffers, VAD, AEC, LUFS targets, WebRTC pipeline.

HLS, DASH, AV1, ABR strategies, bitrate ladders, DRM, VMAF.

How to design APIs, run postmortems, estimate, pick brokers, review PRs.

Miscellaneous engineering topics that don't fit cleanly elsewhere.