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Engineering • Step-by-Step Curriculum

Choosing Your Tech Stack & System Architecture

Learn how senior engineers evaluate team skills, budget, latency, and scale to pick boring, reliable stacks instead of chasing hype.

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Practical Equipment & Study Requirements
What laptop, phone, internet, and free tools you need for this field—plus cloud options if your device is low-spec.
Laptop / PC Specs

Minimum:

Recommended:

Free Cloud Option:

Phone & Internet

Laptop Essential

Internet: Low bandwidth (~150 MB/week) for reading docs and drawing Mermaid/Excalidraw diagrams.

Free Software & Hardware Kit

Hardware / Kit: None required

All Levels (1–6) Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
Intermediate Stage

Build real multi-part projects, tooling fluency, and problem-solving speed.

Step 3 intermediate ~8 hrs

Backend & Database Decisions (Laravel, Django, Node, SQL vs NoSQL)

Match relational data (PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite) or document stores to real domain workloads.

What You Will Learn
  • ACID transactions vs eventual consistency
  • Laravel vs Django vs Express/FastAPI
Free Public Courses & Official Docs
PostgreSQL Official Tutorial
Public Free Resource • Free Course / Docs
Open Free
Hands-On Milestone Project: Design a database & backend stack proposal for a cooperative savings ledger.
Step 4 intermediate ~8 hrs

Designing for Low-Bandwidth, Caching & Local-First Resilience

Optimize apps for Ugandan/mobile data realities: asset budgets, caching, queues, and CDNs.

What You Will Learn
  • HTTP caching & Redis/file cache
  • Asset compression & lazy loading
Free Public Courses & Official Docs
web.dev: Fast Load Times
Public Free Resource • Free Course / Docs
Open Free
Hands-On Milestone Project: Audit a sample app and reduce page payload by 50% with caching and compression.
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Choosing Your Tech Stack & System Architecture — Practical Mastery Assessment

Score 80% or higher (5 scenario questions) + submit your real practical capstone project after at least 7 days of study to earn a Verified MESHLUMA Certificate.

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