verified_user
Target Output
Weekly Production Deliverable
Deliverable — end of Phase 7 checkpoint:
DSA: 100% of the Striver A2Z sheet, cold-tested end to end.
Core CS: LLD 100% done.
SQL+DE Foundations.md and DBMS.md 100% done. HLD: 6 of 17 practice problems done this phase (9 total), 8 remaining.AI/ML: NLP/LLM specialization underway — Hugging Face LLM Course done, fine-tuned LoRA model shipped, advanced RAG measured with RAGAS, evaluated agent shipped.
Java Backend: Fully layered, persisted (Postgres + Flyway), secured (JWT + RBAC), and tested (JUnit 5 + Mockito + Testcontainers) Spring Boot REST API.
Monday
0 / 2 done
DSA
Light maintenance
1 mixed problem, any topic
1.5h
AI/ML
Research Paper: LoRA
Read the original paper: "LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models" (Hu et al., arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685) — read cold, connecting mathematical rank formulas to PEFT code
2.5h
Tuesday
0 / 2 done
DSA
1 mixed problem
1.5h
CORE
HLD Practice Problems 1
System Design of Tinder (Geohashing, matching algorithm, profile caching) & System Design of TikTok (Video ingestion, CDN distribution, recommendation feed)
2.5h
Wednesday
0 / 2 done
DSA
1 mixed problem
1.5h
AI/ML
LoRA Paper Breakdown & Reflection
Connect LoRA's mathematical properties (intrinsic dimensionality, matrix rank
r, zero inference latency overhead) to your Week 32 fine-tuning results
2.5h
Thursday
0 / 2 done
DSA
1 mixed problem
1.5h
CORE
HLD Practice Problems 2
System Design of an Online Coding Judge (Part 1 & 2: Sandboxing, code execution isolation, judge worker queues) & System Design of UPI Payments
2.5h
Friday
0 / 2 done
DSA
1 mixed problem
1.5h
AI/ML
Phase 7 AI Synthesis
Write comprehensive notes comparing LoRA, full fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic workflows; explain when you'd reach for each in an enterprise setting
2.5h
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Weekend High-Load Execution
• 8.0h Daily Deep Focus Lab
Saturday
0 / 3 done
DSA
Contest
1.5h
AI/ML
Phase 7 NLP/LLM Capstone Defense (4.0h)
Deliver full demonstration of fine-tuned model and re-ranked RAG pipeline; explain PEFT and low-rank matrices out loud.
4.0h
JAVA
Testing Fundamentals with JUnit 5 & Mockito
Why test; JUnit 5 lifecycle (
@Test, assertions, @BeforeEach); Mockito: @Mock, @InjectMocks, stubbing methods, verifying interactions; unit test the Service layer
2.5h
Sunday
0 / 3 done
DSA
Full weekly revision
1.5h
AI/ML
Spring Boot + AI Architecture Review (4.0h)
Architecture review: connecting Spring Boot 3.x REST controllers with remote Python AI inference microservices.
4.0h
JAVA
Integration Testing with Testcontainers
@SpringBootTest, MockMvc for Controllers, @DataJpaTest for Repositories, Testcontainers to test against a real containerized Postgres DB; full test suite on GitHub
2.5h
edit_note
Week 35 Technical Notes & Journal
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