Week 21 — Capstone polish + STAR bank I¶

At a glance

Phase 6: Capstone + Interview Loop · Starts: Mon 15 Feb 2027 · Planned: 16h 45m

Build: Capstone: deploy to Azure Container Apps + Foundry; end-to-end demo script

By day¶

System Design · 45 min · Timed AI SD mock: enterprise RAG system (redo, compare with week 6 write-up) → Design an enterprise RAG system w21-sd-1
DSA · 25 min · Reverse Bits + Missing Number + Sum of Two Integers → Math, geometry & bit manipulation · resource w21-dsa-1
Python · 20 min · Rep: clean up typing across the capstone (ty strict on core package) → Advanced typing: generics, Protocols, ParamSpec, TypedDict w21-py-1
Communication · 30 min · Grammar: Narrative tenses for stories about your past work → Week 21 drills · day 1 w21-comm-1

Agentic AI · 60 min · Deployment architecture for Azure: Container Apps, Foundry models, Key Vault, managed identity, Postgres Flexible Server + pgvector → Managed platforms: Microsoft Foundry, Bedrock AgentCore · resource w21-ai-1
DSA · 30 min · Pow(x, n) + Multiply Strings → Math, geometry & bit manipulation · resource w21-dsa-2
Communication · 30 min · Vocabulary: Achievement verbs: spearheaded, orchestrated, streamlined → Week 21 drills · day 2 w21-comm-2

DSA · 25 min · LLD: LRU cache + TTL cache, thread-safe (threading.Lock) → Concurrency & low-level design problems (LRU, rate limiter, parking lot) · resource w21-dsa-3
Architecture · 45 min · arc42 full doc for capstone (sections 1-12, trimmed) + C4 diagrams updated → C4, arc42 & diagrams as code · resource w21-arch-1
Python · 20 min · Rep: raise coverage on domain layer to 90% with property tests → Testing: pytest, fixtures, Hypothesis, testcontainers w21-py-2
Communication · 30 min · Speaking drill: Mock behavioural answers with STAR → Week 21 drills · day 3 w21-comm-3

Agentic AI · 60 min · Production checklist pass 2: close every red item (rollback, cost caps, retention, runbook) → Shipping LLM features to production: the checklist w21-ai-2
Java/Spring AI · 30 min · Deploy the Spring AI MCP server to Azure Container Apps with managed identity → Tool calling & MCP servers in Spring AI w21-java-1
Communication · 30 min · Idioms & phrasal verbs: Interview idioms: hit the ground running, go the extra mile → Week 21 drills · day 4 w21-comm-4

System Design · 45 min · Caching + consistency deep-dive questions drill (10 L3 questions out loud) → Caching strategies w21-sd-2
DSA · 25 min · LLD: rate limiter (token bucket) with concurrency tests → Concurrency & low-level design problems (LRU, rate limiter, parking lot) w21-dsa-4
Python · 20 min · Rep: FastAPI production config: workers, timeouts, graceful shutdown → FastAPI for production w21-py-3
Communication · 30 min · Writing: Resume and profile bullet points → Week 21 drills · day 5 w21-comm-5

Agentic AI · 120 min · Capstone build: deploy orchestrator + MCP servers to Azure Container Apps via IaC (Bicep/Terraform); smoke evals against the deployed stack → Shipping LLM features to production: the checklist · resource w21-ai-3
DSA · 30 min · LLD: bounded blocking queue / producer-consumer (Condition) → Concurrency & low-level design problems (LRU, rate limiter, parking lot) w21-dsa-5
Java/Spring AI · 30 min · Java README + architecture notes for the MCP server → Spring AI 2.0 fundamentals: ChatClient, advisors, structured output w21-java-2
Communication · 30 min · Record & shadow: Mock behavioural answers with STAR → Week 21 drills · day 6 w21-comm-6

System Design · 45 min · Written design: capstone architecture as an interview answer — 2-page 'design a multi-agent ops platform' doc → Design a multi-agent platform w21-sd-3
Architecture · 30 min · Write ADR 021 for capstone: Azure deployment topology (Container Apps + Foundry + managed identity) → C4, arc42 & diagrams as code · resource w21-arch-2
Staff+ · 30 min · STAR bank part 1: 6 stories (conflict, influence, failure, ambiguity, technical leadership, mentoring) in the STAR stories bank → Behavioral & Staff interviews: STAR stories bank w21-staff-1
Communication · 30 min · Soft skills + weekly review: Self-advocacy without arrogance → Week 21 drills · day 7 w21-comm-7
Review · 60 min · Explain-it-back: your capstone architecture in 5 min to a 'VP' audience; flashcards on LLD patterns → AI-native architecture: LLMs as system components w21-rev-1