Phase 3 Week 1: Protocol Buffers & gRPC

Day 1: Protocol Buffers — Encoding and Design Day 2: Protobuf in Rust with prost Day 3: gRPC Concepts Day 4: tonic Server Day 5: tonic Client — Interceptors and TLS Day 6: gRPC Error Handling — Status, Deadlines, and Metadata Day 7: Challenge — Bidirectional gRPC Chat Service

Phase 3 Week 2: Custom Binary Protocols

Day 8: Binary Protocol Design Day 9: tokio-util Codec Day 10: Request-Response Multiplexing Day 11: Protocol Versioning Day 12: Zero-Copy Deserialization Day 13: Message Authentication Day 14: Challenge — Multiplexed Binary Protocol

Phase 3 Week 3: Service Mesh & mTLS

Day 15: Service Mesh Concepts Day 16: Envoy Proxy — xDS API Day 17: Istio Architecture Day 18: mTLS in Service Mesh — SPIFFE/SPIRE Day 19: Istio Traffic Management Day 20: Observability in Service Mesh Day 21: Challenge — Istio mTLS and Traffic Shifting