Why FinOps exists and how it works: visibility, accountability, and the Inform-Optimize-Operate lifecycle. Learn the concepts behind cloud financial operations.
Fundamentals of Azure
Why Azure works the way it does: regions, Entra ID, resource groups, and core services. Learn the concepts that shape Microsoft cloud decisions.
Fundamentals of AWS
Why AWS works the way it does: regions, IAM, shared responsibility, and core services. Learn the concepts that shape cloud decisions.
Things That Are No Longer True With AI
AI has overturned old assumptions about writing, thinking, coding, art, buying software, and needing experts. Here are some things that are no longer true.
How Do I Use APT?
How to install, update, remove, and search packages with the APT package manager on Debian and Ubuntu.
How Do I Use DNF?
How to install, update, remove, and search packages with DNF on Fedora, RHEL, and Rocky Linux.
A Software Fundamentals Glossary
Glossary of terms for software fundamentals (maintainability, design, naming, and related topics).
Fundamentals of Maintainability
Why software maintainability matters: structural complexity, understandability, technical debt, coupling, and code smells. Learn the principles that keep code changeable over time.
Fundamental Skills
Fitness review skills turn fundamentals into repeatable, scored code reviews across architecture, security, reliability, and more.
Fundamentals of Graph Databases
Why graph databases exist, when to use them, and how they differ from relational databases. Learn nodes, edges, and relationship-first querying.