AWS Cloud Practitioner → Solutions Architect
Beginner → Advanced48 hours
- Core AWS services
- Well-Architected pillars
- Networking & IAM deep-dive
- Hands-on labs & mock exams
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Data Engineering on Databricks
Intermediate36 hours
- Delta Lake & medallion architecture
- PySpark patterns
- Unity Catalog governance
- DLT + Workflows in production
Applied AI & LLM Engineering
Intermediate30 hours
- RAG architectures
- Prompting & evaluation
- Vector DBs (Pinecone, pgvector)
- Guardrails & cost control
Cybersecurity Fundamentals & GRC
Beginner → Intermediate40 hours
- NIST 800-53 mapping
- SOC 2 & PCI controls
- Threat modeling
- Cloud security baselines
Full-Stack TypeScript (React + Node)
Intermediate42 hours
- Modern React patterns
- Type-safe APIs
- Testing & CI
- Production deployment
SAP S/4HANA for Functional Consultants
Intermediate → Advanced50 hours
- FI/CO foundations
- MM & SD integration
- Fiori essentials
- Brownfield conversion playbook
DevOps & Platform Engineering
Intermediate38 hours
- Kubernetes operations
- GitOps with Argo
- Observability (Prom + Grafana)
- Progressive delivery
Salesforce Admin → Developer Track
Beginner → Intermediate44 hours
- Sales & Service Cloud
- Apex & LWC
- Integration patterns
- Salesforce DX
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CloudUpdated this week
Inside a 200-workload AWS migration: the patterns that actually shipped
Rehost, replatform, and refactor are textbook — what really moved the program was a Control Tower landing zone, ruthless backlog grooming, and a small platform team that said no.
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AIUpdated this month
LLM in production: a practitioner's checklist for retrieval, eval, and guardrails
Most LLM proofs of concept never reach production. This walks through the seven decisions that separate a demo from a system you can put a customer on.
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DataLive insight
From dashboards to decisions: building a trusted lakehouse on Databricks
A medallion architecture with Unity Catalog governance is the easy part. The hard part is the social contract between data producers and consumers.
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CybersecurityLive insight
Audit-ready by default: building NIST + SOC 2 controls into your pipeline
Treat compliance the way you treat testing — as something the pipeline proves, not something an analyst hopes to find at the end of the quarter.
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TalentLive insight
What 'staff augmentation' actually means in 2026 — and how to use it well
Three engagement models, two contract structures, and one rule: the model has to match how your platform team actually operates, not how a sales deck describes it.
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ImmigrationUpdated this month
OPT to H-1B without the panic: a 12-month checklist
What to do at month 12, 9, 6, and 3 of your STEM extension so you're never one rejection away from a flight home.
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