Skip to content

Topics

The topic index. The four pillars (Learn / Build / Certify / Reference) are organized by purpose. This index is organized by subject.

If you want everything the repo has on a given subject - the plain-English explainer, the cross-cloud comparisons, the hands-on builds, the cert notes that go deepest - start here.

Browse by topic

  • Networking - VPCs, hybrid connectivity, DNS, load balancing, multi-cloud networking
  • Kubernetes - K8s primitives, distributions, security, operations, certs
  • Serverless - functions, container-based serverless, event-driven, scale-to-zero
  • Observability - logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, the three pillars of observability
  • SRE and reliability - SLOs, chaos engineering, DR, multi-region, blast-radius reduction
  • Platform engineering - internal platforms as products, golden paths, self-service, IDPs
  • FinOps - cloud cost accountability, optimization, the FinOps cert family

On the sibling sites

Pattern per topic page

Each topic page links across pillars in a consistent shape:

  1. One-paragraph summary
  2. Learn - concept pages (5-10 min reads)
  3. Compare - cross-cloud service comparisons
  4. Reference - deep-dive guides (migration, cost, troubleshooting, networking)
  5. Build - hands-on projects
  6. Certify - certs that cover this topic, grouped by tier

Use these pages as a starting jumppoint. They're aggregators, not source-of-truth content.

Don't see a topic you want?

The topics here cover the densest cross-pillar threads. Other subjects (edge computing, for instance) have their own home in resources/ but don't yet have a topic index. Contributions welcome - see CONTRIBUTING.md.