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Cloud and operations, calmly.

Cloud and operations, explained like a runbook.

Thirty short concepts across five panels — from your first deploy to staying up under load. No vendor hype, no cost figures.

Cloud Basics

What the cloud is, how regions work, and how to think about cost.

What the Cloud Really Is

When people say "the cloud," they often picture something abstract and invisible, like electricity flowing through the air.

BeginnerBasics

Cloud vs Your Own Server

When you decide where your software will run, you face a fundamental choice: use cloud services or run your own server.

BeginnerBasics

Regions and Zones, Simply

When you use cloud services, you are not renting a magical, invisible computer.

BeginnerBasics

IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

When you use cloud services, you are really choosing how much of the underlying technology you want to manage yourself.

IntermediateBasics

Thinking About Cloud Costs

Thinking about cloud costs is not about becoming an accountant or memorizing price lists.

IntermediateBasics

Your First Cloud Service

Your first cloud service is not about mastering a dozen tools or memorising a catalogue of features.

BeginnerBasics

Deploying Apps

Deploys, CI/CD, containers, proxying, and scaling with demand.

Deploying an App, Simply

Deploying an app simply means taking the code you have written on your computer and making it available for others to use.

BeginnerDeploy

CI/CD Without the Buzzwords

At its heart, this concept is about turning the path from a code change to a running application into a repeatable, reliable process.

IntermediateDeploy

Containers, Explained

Containers are a way to package an application together with everything it needs to run: the code, the runtime, system libraries, and configuration files.

IntermediateDeploy

Writing a Simple Dockerfile

A Dockerfile is a plain text recipe that tells a container engine how to assemble an image.

IntermediateDeploy

Reverse Proxies, Simply

A reverse proxy is a server that sits between the outside world and your internal applications.

IntermediateDeploy

Config & Secrets

Environment variables, secrets, consistency, backups, and IaC.

Config vs Code

Config vs code is about separating the values that change between environments from the logic that stays the same.

IntermediateConfig

Environment Variables

Environment variables are dynamic named values that live outside your application code, typically in the operating system or the runtime environment where your…

BeginnerConfig

Handling Secrets Safely

Handling secrets safely is the practice of keeping sensitive values such as passwords, API keys, tokens, and certificates out of places where they could be exposed,…

IntermediateConfig