What to remember · where to go next
Five takeaways. The career paths these skills map to. Where to read deeper. And what comes next in Module 02.
- 01
Cloud integration is the architecture
Most orgs are hybrid by accident — design it on purpose.
- 02
Security is not bolt-on
Identity → network → audit, in that order. Every time.
- 03
Long lead times are a system-design problem, not a people problem
The Three Ways are the system intervention.
- 04
Anti-patterns are universal
Central SQL, sticky sessions, tangled interfaces don't care which cloud you're on.
- 05
Four golden signals get you 80% of observability
Latency · traffic · errors · saturation. Start there.
Real titles in the local market. You'll probably wear 2–3 of these hats early on, then specialize as you find what you like.
High-level shape. Trades off between pillars. Talks to stakeholders.
CI/CD, IaC, automation. Lives in the value stream.
Operates production. Owns the four golden signals. Game days, postmortems.
Builds the internal platform other devs use. Self-service infra.
Identity, network, audit at scale. Threat modeling, IR, compliance.
Watches the bill. Tags, attributes, optimizes. Increasingly its own discipline.
- — The DevOps Handbook — Gene Kim et al.
- — Site Reliability Engineering — Beyer et al. (free online)
- — The Site Reliability Workbook — practical SRE
- — Building Secure & Reliable Systems — security-focused SRE
- — Accelerate — Forsgren, Humble, Kim · DORA research
- — AWS Well-Architected
- — Azure WAF
- — GCP Architecture Framework
- — sre.google — all of Google's SRE materials
- — AWS Builders' Library — how AWS itself builds
- — DORA reports — annual State of DevOps
Module 01 was about planning and design. Module 02 will go into implementation patterns:
- — Container orchestration (Kubernetes deep-dive)
- — Service mesh & inter-service security
- — Event-driven and serverless integration
- — Multi-cloud data strategies
- — Practical IaC (Terraform / OpenTofu)
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