Week 26 — Buffer II — catch-up + next plan¶

At a glance

Phase 7: Buffer · Starts: Mon 22 Mar 2027 · Planned: 11h 00m · Light week

Build: Finish specialization spike; publish final retro and next-6-month plan

By day¶

System Design · 30 min · Redo second-weakest SD topic → Multi-region, DR & failover w26-sd-1
DSA · 15 min · Revision: Edit Distance → Dynamic programming 2-D · resource w26-dsa-1
Python · 15 min · Rep: CPython internals reading of choice → CPython internals: bytecode, GIL, memory · resource w26-py-1
Communication · 20 min · Grammar: Free choice: consolidate → Week 26 drills · day 1 w26-comm-1

Agentic AI · 40 min · Specialization build block 2: finish spike + eval it → Inference serving: vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, quantization w26-ai-1
DSA · 20 min · Revision: Meeting Rooms II → Intervals · resource w26-dsa-2
Communication · 20 min · Vocabulary: Free choice: consolidate → Week 26 drills · day 2 w26-comm-2

DSA · 15 min · Revision: Jump Game II → Greedy · resource w26-dsa-3
Architecture · 30 min · Catch-up: evolutionary architecture fitness function added to CI → Evolutionary architecture & fitness functions w26-arch-1
Python · 15 min · Rep: performance fix of choice → Performance & profiling w26-py-2
Communication · 20 min · Speaking drill: Free choice: consolidate → Week 26 drills · day 3 w26-comm-3

Agentic AI · 40 min · Write up the spike (ablation / failure analysis) → Evals I: error analysis, LLM-as-judge, eval-driven development w26-ai-2
Java/Spring AI · 20 min · Catch-up Java task → RAG with Spring AI & pgvector w26-java-1
Communication · 20 min · Idioms & phrasal verbs: Idiom review round → Week 26 drills · day 4 w26-comm-4

System Design · 30 min · Read one more paper (Spanner/Zanzibar) and summarise → Security: authN/Z, OAuth2/OIDC, zero trust, multi-tenancy w26-sd-2
DSA · 15 min · Revision: Top K Frequent Elements + Product of Array Except Self → Arrays & hashing · resource w26-dsa-4
Python · 10 min · Rep: typing clean-up → Advanced typing: generics, Protocols, ParamSpec, TypedDict w26-py-3
Communication · 20 min · Writing: Free choice: consolidate → Week 26 drills · day 5 w26-comm-5

Agentic AI · 75 min · Catch-up: any remaining capstone gap; tag v1.1 → Durable execution & human-in-the-loop w26-ai-3
DSA · 20 min · Timed set: 2 unseen mediums → Problem-solving approach & complexity analysis · resource w26-dsa-5
Java/Spring AI · 20 min · Java 25 features recap quiz → Modern Java 21→25: records, sealed types, patterns w26-java-2
Communication · 20 min · Record & shadow: Free choice: consolidate → Week 26 drills · day 6 w26-comm-6

System Design · 30 min · Written design: timed redo of your weakest AI SD question → Design an LLM inference/serving platform w26-sd-3
Architecture · 20 min · Write ADR 026 for capstone: close-out — what v2 looks like → Architecture Decision Records · resource w26-arch-2
Staff+ · 20 min · Incident leadership: write a blameless postmortem template and practise on a past incident → Incident leadership & blameless postmortems w26-staff-1
Communication · 20 min · Soft skills + weekly review: Set your next 6-month communication goals → Week 26 drills · day 7 w26-comm-7
Review · 40 min · Final retro + publish next-6-month plan to docs/log/ → Staff archetypes & operating at Staff+ w26-rev-1