Week 5: Backtracking (finish), Graphs

Oct 13–19  ·  Target times: Easy ≤ 12m · Medium ≤ 25m · Hard ≤ 45m

Daily routine: 75 min DSA (timed) + 10 min syntax typing + 35 min second block. Talk out loud. No AI autocomplete. Over cap → 48h redo queue.

Day 1

DSA set 1 of 5

DSA problems (75 min, timed)

Second block (35 min) — System Design + CS: ML System Design (your zone)
Model serving (batching, replicas, autoscaling), feature store, monitoring/drift, A/B testing. Most important: serving at scale + monitoring. Practice: design a model-serving / recommendation pipeline (ByteByteGo & Hello Interview ML episodes). Outcome: inference API for 10k QPS with a latency budget.

Day 2

DSA set 2 of 5

DSA problems (75 min, timed)

Second block (35 min) — ML/DL: Serving & optimization concepts
Dynamic batching, quantization (INT8/FP16), ONNX/TensorRT, GPU utilization/contention, latency vs throughput. Most important: your GPU-contention/Triton scheduling story, formalized.

Day 3

DSA set 3 of 5

DSA problems (75 min, timed)

Second block (35 min) — System Design + CS: ML System Design (your zone)
Model serving (batching, replicas, autoscaling), feature store, monitoring/drift, A/B testing. Most important: serving at scale + monitoring. Practice: design a model-serving / recommendation pipeline (ByteByteGo & Hello Interview ML episodes). Outcome: inference API for 10k QPS with a latency budget.

Day 4

DSA set 4 of 5

DSA problems (75 min, timed)

Second block (35 min) — ML/DL: Serving & optimization concepts
Dynamic batching, quantization (INT8/FP16), ONNX/TensorRT, GPU utilization/contention, latency vs throughput. Most important: your GPU-contention/Triton scheduling story, formalized.

Day 5

DSA set 5 of 5

DSA problems (75 min, timed)

Second block (35 min) — System Design + CS: ML System Design (your zone)
Model serving (batching, replicas, autoscaling), feature store, monitoring/drift, A/B testing. Most important: serving at scale + monitoring. Practice: design a model-serving / recommendation pipeline (ByteByteGo & Hello Interview ML episodes). Outcome: inference API for 10k QPS with a latency budget.

Weekend

Project + review
🚀 PROJECT 2 — Inference server + benchmark (KICKOFF weekend)
Repo; serve 2–3 models (FastAPI multi-model). Build benchmark harness (Locust/custom) for latency + throughput under concurrency. Milestone: baseline server + benchmark running.
Also: 1 system-design practice out loud. Redo any DSA problem that went over cap (48h queue).