Taught by characters · Explained like you're 10 · Self-paced

Every course under one roof.

A small library of deep, self-paced courses — platform engineering, modern AI, Claude, and cloud migration. Every one is taught by the same cast of animal characters, one for each job a system has to do, and every page explains itself twice: once properly, and once like you're 10. Learn the character, keep the concept. Pick a course and start.

How every course teaches

The Animal Academy

Every course here is taught by the same cast of animal characters — each one is a job the system has to do. The elephant who never drops your data in the migration course is the elephant who holds the context window in the AI course. Meet them once and the concepts travel with you.

Meet the cast Each course names its own: Platform Guild · AI Academy · Migration Academy · Claude Crew · Ship-It Guild · Shift-Left Squad · Reliability Watch · The Pod Squad · Mission Control · The Sync Loop

Courses

Each card is a whole course. Drafts wear a badge until they're ready.

Platform Engineering Build an internal developer platform — platform-as-a-product, golden paths, the five CNPE exam domains, 31 tool guides, hands-on labs, and full CNPE + CNPA exam prep. 167 pages Flashcards Quiz Labs Exam simulator Dark mode AI Provider-neutral modern AI — how models work, prompting, agents, MCP, RAG, evals, security — across Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, with prep for seven certification exams and 2,000+ flashcards. 71 pages Flashcards Quiz Labs Exam simulator Dark mode News feed Claude Anthropic's Claude from first principles — the API, prompting, tool use, agents and MCP, RAG, safety, evaluation, and production — plus six capstone projects across different domains. 37 pages Flashcards Quiz Labs Exam simulator Dark mode Cloud Migration Moving from the data center to the cloud — the 7 R's, the migration lifecycle, modernization, architecture patterns, data and cost — then the same move done three ways on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. 35 pages Flashcards Quiz Labs Exam simulator Dark mode DevOps Ship faster and break less — CALMS culture, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containers, deployment strategies, and the DORA metrics that prove it's working. 129 pages Flashcards Quiz Labs Exam simulator Dark mode DevSecOps Security built into every commit, not bolted on after — threat modeling, the secure SDLC, SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets management, supply-chain and cloud security, and compliance. 130 pages Flashcards Quiz Labs Exam simulator Dark mode SRE Run reliable systems at scale — SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, on-call and incident management, blameless postmortems, capacity planning, and chaos engineering. 129 pages Flashcards Quiz Labs Exam simulator Dark mode Golden Astronaut The road to Golden Kubestronaut — GitOps, service mesh, policy, observability, the developer portal, and Linux fundamentals across CGOA, CAPA, CBA, CCA, ICA, KCA, OTCA, PCA, and LFCS. 116 pages Flashcards Quiz Labs Exam simulator Dark mode Kubernetes From cluster architecture to production operations — the full CNCF Kubernetes certification path across all 5 exams: KCNA, KCSA, CKA, CKAD, and CKS. 99 pages Flashcards Quiz Labs Exam simulator Dark mode GitOps Argo CD and Flux in depth — architecture, progressive delivery, secrets, multi-cluster fleets, policy gates, and the CGOA certification, built around the one idea both tools implement: the reconciliation loop. 76 pages Flashcards Quiz Labs Exam simulator Dark mode