Chapter 12
Defend the work
Updated
Show judgment, evidence, and an honest account of limits.
Read
- The AI-native interview The employer’s published plan, build, review format and a debugging-interview pilot.
- Palantir FDSE Full Interview Loop Process First-person account of learning, decomposition, motivation, and project discussion.
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications · 2nd edition BookData models, replication, transactions, and partial failure.Focus: Second edition: chapters 5, 6, 8, 9 and 12 on evolution, replication, transactions, failures, and streams. Apply: Defend one consistency contract: stale reads allowed, invariants protected, and recovery under a partition.
Do
- Run a mock interview using one reported question and one case discussion.
- Present your project: problem, alternatives, design, results, and next decision.
- Score your skills with evidence and choose the next capability to improve.
You are done when: A portfolio case study, demo, evaluation report, and candid retrospective.