DevOps & automation
CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automation practices
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Start here
- GitHub Skills : For learning by doing: work through a small exercise before building a bigger pipeline.
- Site Reliability Engineering books : For operating what you build: useful reading when reliability becomes a team responsibility.
Official resources
CI/CD platforms
- Azure DevOps Services - Microsoft’s platform (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts)
- GitHub Actions - workflow automation (marketplace)
- GitHub Secret Protection + Code Security - the unbundled successors to GitHub Advanced Security
Version control
- Semantic Versioning
- Git Flow (don’t follow this too rigidly!)
- GitHub Skills - interactive tutorials
- Conventional Commits
- Pro Git book
Monitoring and observability
- OpenTelemetry
- App Insights - Azure APM
- Sentry - error tracking and performance monitoring
- New Relic - observability platform
- Raygun - crash reporting and APM
- PostHog - open-source product analytics
- Prometheus - monitoring and alerting
- Grafana - observability dashboards
Community resources and reading
Still stuck? Work with me or get in touch.