Technology of the Institute
Learn the technologies, architecture, and operational practices we use to build the Inquiry Institute.
Courses
This certification is composed of the following courses. Some materials will come online incrementally.
System Overview: How the Institute Works
A guided tour of the Institute’s architecture: frontend, APIs, data, jobs, and operational surfaces.
Frontend: Next.js App Router in Practice
Routing, server/client components, metadata, and the UI patterns used across the site.
Data Layer: Supabase, Migrations, and Permissions
How data is modeled, secured, migrated, and accessed (and how it differs from generated/static datasets).
Server Capabilities: Edge/Server Functions and Integrations
How we run server code: API routes, edge functions, webhooks, and third-party integrations.
RAG & Embeddings: Document Intelligence
Embeddings, retrieval, and how Institute documents are indexed and queried for grounded responses.
Deployment & Operations
Build pipelines, environment configuration, logging, monitoring, and practical debugging workflows.
Security & Privacy by Design
Threat modeling basics, secrets hygiene, user data minimization, and safe-by-default engineering.