Stop doomscrolling. Start shipping.

Learn backend engineering one swipe at a time.

The same swipe-up feed you already open all day, except every short teaches one backend idea. Open it instead of TikTok and the lost hours turn into a skill that compounds.

Less than a coffee a month · cancel anytime · refunds within seven days

WebhooksMicrokernel Plugin ArchitectureAgentic Workflows at Scale

Real shorts, hover to play

The swap

Your thumb already knows what to do.

You open a reels app dozens of times a day out of pure habit. Point that exact habit at your career and nothing else has to change.

Your feed today

  • Memes and hot takes you forget by lunch
  • A dopamine spike, then nothing to show for it
  • An hour gone, the algorithm a little richer
  • You close the app feeling slightly worse

Your feed here

  • One real engineering concept per short
  • Knowledge that compounds into a skill
  • A streak and XP you are actually proud of
  • You close the app a little more senior

What you walk away with

Real outcomes, not just watch time.

Every short moves you toward something you can do at work tomorrow. Pick the engineer you want to become and start scrolling toward it.

The library

One feed. Everything a backend-leaning engineer needs.

Fresh shorts land in your feed every week, so there is always a new concept waiting the next time your thumb gets restless.

AI Engineering

Ship real LLM products

  • LLM Next Token Predictor
  • Tokenisation
  • Tokenisation BPE Algorithm
New shorts every week

AI-Assisted Engineering

Ship faster with AI coding tools without shipping their mistakes

  • What is AI Assisted Coding
  • Autocomplete vs Chat vs Agent
  • Vscode Agent Mode
New shorts every week

Coding Interview Patterns

Recognize the handful of patterns interviews actually test, so you stop memorizing 500 problems

  • Why Patterns Not Problems
  • Pattern Recognition Framework
  • Big O Intuition
New shorts every week

System Design

Single server to planet scale

  • What is System Design
  • Single Server to Millions
  • Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling
New shorts every week

Backend Engineering

Databases, APIs, and performance

  • What Happens Url Enter
  • HTTP Requests Responses
  • HTTP Versions
New shorts every week

Frontend Engineering

Master the browser, JavaScript, React, and the craft of shipping fast, accessible, interview-ready interfaces.

  • How Browsers Work
  • DOM Tree
  • Cssom Tree
New shorts every week

DevOps & Cloud

Ship to the cloud with confidence: containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and the AWS/GCP building blocks engineers actually touch every day.

  • Git Mental Model
  • Git Staging Area
  • Git Branching Merging
New shorts every week

Data Engineering

Pipelines, SQL, and streams

  • What Data Engineers Do
  • Oltp vs Olap
  • Batch vs Streaming
New shorts every week

Security Engineering

Think like an attacker, build like a defender, and ace the security interview.

  • Cia Triad
  • Attacker Mindset
  • Threat vs Vuln vs Risk
New shorts every week

Software Architecture

Structure code and systems that survive change, scale teams, and pass the design interview.

  • What is Software Architecture
  • Architecture vs Design
  • Conways Law
New shorts every week

Production Engineering

Ship safely, watch closely, and survive the 3am page.

  • What is a Release
  • Deploy vs Release
  • Blue Green Deployment
New shorts every week

Technical Leadership

Grow from strong IC to the engineer everyone trusts to lead.

  • Ic to Lead Shift
  • Tech Lead vs Manager
  • Leadership Without Title
New shorts every week

How it works

How the scroll becomes a skill.

01

Open this instead

Next time your thumb reaches for TikTok, reach for this. Same feed, same swipe, better payoff.

02

Swipe the series

Every concept is one short. Swipe up for the next idea, the way you already scroll reels.

03

Keep the streak

Mark shorts done, earn XP, and watch a real skill compound across every device.

Not another faceless course

Hand-picked by Param, and credited to whoever made it.

Every short is chosen by Param at LearnWithParam and credits the engineer who made it, so you always know who you are learning from and why it earned a spot in the feed.

Less than a coffee a month

One plan. Every track. Cancel anytime.

One subscription opens the whole library, with new shorts added every week. Not for you? There is a refund within seven days.

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Before you ask

The honest answers.

Is this just free YouTube I could find myself?

The videos are public, the path is not. Every concept is placed in order, taught exactly once, and stripped of the rabbit holes. You learn one idea at a time instead of losing an evening to autoplay.

Can a short really teach me something real?

A short builds the intuition fast, the part most courses bury under an hour of setup. When you want to go deep, every track points you to the full courses at LearnWithParam.

Is this only for interview prep?

No. Interviews are one outcome. Most of the library is about getting better at the daily job: shipping features, debugging production, designing systems your team can live with.

How do I know it is worth paying for?

Watch the sample shorts right on the home page to feel the format, then unlock everything. If it does not click within seven days, ask for a refund and you pay nothing.

I am not in the US. Is it affordable?

Prices adapt to your region automatically, so what you pay reflects where you live.

What if I change my mind?

Cancel anytime, and refunds are honored within seven days. No emails to write, no hoops.

Turn the time the algorithm was taking into a career.

Open one short instead of the next reel. Cancel anytime, and if it is not for you, there is a refund within seven days.

From the maker of backendchallenges.com