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Watch it. Do it. Prove it.

Interactive courses where each lesson pairs a narrated concept video with a live hands-on coaching session in a simulated terminal — then a quick checkpoint.

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AI Engineering Essentials

Build production LLM applications — prompting, RAG, agents and tool use, multi-agent systems, evaluation and guardrails, AI system design, and cost/latency/safety — with hands-on labs in Python.

7 lessons →
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AI for Coding Essentials

Ship faster with AI coding tools without shipping their mistakes — workflows, prompting, reviewing output, tooling, testing, and the pitfalls.

6 lessons →
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Building AI on the Cloud

Build production AI on AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry — managed models, RAG, agents, guardrails, and governance.

6 lessons →
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Frontend Essentials

Build for the browser: semantic HTML, CSS layout, JavaScript and the DOM, React, state and data, and performance and accessibility.

6 lessons →
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Backend Essentials

Build reliable services: HTTP and REST, auth and security, data and persistence, caching, async and messaging, and architecture.

6 lessons →
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Database Essentials

Work with data: SQL and queries, data modeling, indexing and performance, transactions and concurrency, NoSQL and scaling, and operations.

6 lessons →
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Kubernetes Fundamentals

Go from zero to confident operating Kubernetes — watch the concept, practice it hands-on with the coach, then prove it. Preps you for the CKA.

9 lessons →
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AWS Solutions Architect

Master core AWS services — compute, storage, networking, security, and databases — and build production-ready architectures. Preps you for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) exam.

8 lessons →
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Containers & Docker

Build a real mental model of containers — images & layers, Dockerfiles, the runtime, storage, Compose & multi-container patterns, security, and registries. Pairs with the Kubernetes course to prep the CKAD.

7 lessons →
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Security & DevSecOps

Ship safer software: shut down the OWASP Top 10, get authn/authz right, manage secrets, harden your supply chain and cloud, and bake security into the SDLC.

6 lessons →
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Terraform Essentials

Learn infrastructure as code with Terraform — desired state, providers, state, modules, configuration, and HCP Terraform — while prepping for the current HashiCorp Terraform Associate (004) exam.

7 lessons →
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Observability & Monitoring

Master Prometheus the way the PCA exam tests it — observability concepts, architecture, PromQL, instrumentation, and alerting with Alertmanager and Grafana. Preps you for the Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam.

6 lessons →
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Microsoft Azure Administrator

Administer core Azure the way a working cloud admin does — identity & governance, storage, compute, app hosting, networking, network security, and monitoring. Preps you for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) exam.

7 lessons →
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Google Cloud

Operate Google Cloud the way a real engineer does — projects & billing, IAM, compute & serverless, GKE, storage & databases, networking, and operations — with gcloud. Preps you for the Google Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) exam.

7 lessons →
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Linux & the Command Line

Administer Linux the way the LFCS exam tests it — essential commands, operations & packages, systemd services, users & permissions, networking, and storage. Preps you for the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam.

6 lessons →
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GitOps & Delivery

Run your cluster the GitOps way — declare desired state in Git, let a controller reconcile it, and ship safely. Watch the concept, practice it hands-on with the coach, then prove it.

6 lessons →
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CI/CD & Delivery Pipelines

Turn every commit into a trustworthy release. Build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, gate merges with tests and reviews, promote signed artifacts, and ship with canary and blue-green deploys — securing the whole supply chain along the way.

7 lessons →
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Python

Master the Python that trips up working engineers — mutability, scope, the data model, and the GIL — on CPython 3.12+.

4 lessons →
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System Design

Reason out loud about real tradeoffs — scaling, storage, queues, and consistency — so the whiteboard interview feels like a conversation, not a quiz.

4 lessons →
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Shell Scripting

Write Bash that survives spaces, empty variables, and CI — quoting, control flow, functions, pipes, text processing, and the discipline that keeps scripts from silently corrupting your machine. Targets Bash 5.x and POSIX shells; great prep for the shell portions of the LFCS.

6 lessons →