Explorations
A connected set of learning sites for platform engineers and developers. Not tutorials, not documentation — practical paths from "never touched this" to shipping confidently in production.
The Approach
Get it working.
Every guide starts with a real scenario you'll recognize. You'll have something running before you fully understand why.
Understand it.
Then goes deeper — why does this resource exist? What is actually happening under the hood when you run that command?
Own it in production.
The goal is never certification. It's the confidence to debug at 2am when something breaks and nobody else is around.
The Series
Linux is the foundation. Kubernetes runs on Linux. Python automates both. Computer Science explains why any of it works.
New to the series? Start with Exploring Linux — it's the foundation everything else builds on.
Exploring Linux
30 articlesThe foundation everything else runs on.
From first login to production confidence — not sysadmin training, practical Linux competence for developers and platform engineers who need to get work done.
Exploring Kubernetes
13 articlesYour company adopted it. This gets you functional.
Not certified, not expert-level — capable enough to deploy your app, debug when things break, and stop being the person who has to ask the platform team for help every time.
Exploring Python
11 articlesFor platform engineers who already know bash.
Task-first, not syntax-first. You don't need to understand decorators before you can write a health-check poller. This site starts with the task. The Python comes with it.
Exploring Computer Science
12 articlesYou know how to code. This teaches you why it works.
The formal theory that makes you a stronger engineer — Big-O, data structures, FSMs, parsers, compilers. Not academic exercises; the stuff that makes you able to explain your own PR.
Exploring Dev Tools
2 articlesThe tools that make working with everything else bearable.
Git workflows, editors, terminal multiplexers, and the other tools that separate engineers who fight their environment from ones who work in flow.