Skill Suites
Code-first guides on AI, DevOps, and shipping software
Real proof-of-concepts you can run today. No fluff, no filler, just working examples.
Latest articles
-
Instructor Course Authoring in an LMS: Lessons, Publishing & Cohort Rosters (Part 12)
Build an LMS instructor workspace: course and lesson authoring, a guarded draft-to-publish lifecycle, and tenant-scoped cohort rosters, server-rendered with Spring Boot and…
-
The Working LMS Platform: Login, RBAC & a Server-Rendered UI with Spring Security + Thymeleaf (Part 11)
Turn the LMS backend into a usable platform: real Spring Security login, enforced role-based access control, a tenant derived from the authenticated…
-
Productionizing the LMS: Security, Testing, CI/CD, Scaling, SRE & Cost (Part 10, Capstone)
The capstone that earns the word production: securing, testing, shipping, scaling, and operating the LMS — resilience against cascading failure, observability and…
-
The LMS Experience Layer: Frontend, Accessibility (WCAG 2.2), i18n & Offline (Part 9)
The learner-facing half of a production LMS: frontend architecture, WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility (legally required), internationalization with RTL, Core Web Vitals performance,…
-
LMS Interoperability: LTI 1.3, SCORM & xAPI Integration Done Right (Part 8)
Make an LMS sellable to institutions: LTI 1.3 launch and grade passback, safe SCORM import and reliable completion capture, and xAPI to…
-
Payments, Billing & Subscriptions for an LMS: Idempotent Webhooks, Entitlements & Reconciliation (Part 7)
Build the payments layer of an LMS: pricing and the billing data model, a subscription state machine, idempotent Stripe webhooks + reconciliation,…
-
Search, Recommendations & AI Tutoring in an LMS: Hybrid Search, Cold-Start & RAG (Part 6)
Discovery makes or breaks an LMS: build first-class catalog search (keyword + semantic + hybrid), recommendations that survive the cold-start problem, zero-downtime…
-
Learning Analytics at Scale: Events, Streaming & the Transactional Outbox (Part 5)
Build a reliable LMS event backbone: the transactional outbox that ends dual-write data loss, at-least-once delivery with idempotent consumers, partitioned ordering, and…
-
Assessments & Real-Time at Scale: Auto-Grading, Live Classes & WebSockets (Part 4)
Build an LMS assessment + real-time tier: a deterministic auto-grading engine, exactly-once submission, and WebSocket fan-out that survives a 50,000-person live class.
