What's the Point of My Platform

What's the Point of My Platform

Not everyone immediately understands how the devopstrain course format advances your learning. Let me tell a bit of history...

Long ago, I had the idea of creating a universal platform for IT courses. The plan was to have courses on various topics, including software development. But you have to start somewhere. The platform's first release happened back in 2020 with a single course, "Hands-on Kubernetes." Kubernetes seemed like the most suitable option for this format at the time. And it really turned out that way — Kubernetes has remained the bestseller on my platform ever since.

If you're already familiar with my platform, the format in a nutshell looks like this: you read a short theoretical introduction ➡️ then comes practice (the result of which is validated automatically) ➡️ then everything repeats again. Each section is connected to the previous one, so you understand where everything came from.

❔ Why does this format work?

The secret is that courses in this format are optimally balanced across the following characteristics:

✔️ Depth of the theoretical material

Here you can go down a rabbit hole that's very interesting but leaves you understanding nothing. Or you can skim the surface, which won't be enough even for a technical interview, let alone real work. The truth is somewhere in between.

✔️ Accessibility of the practice

Here too, a course could just say, "spin up Linux, run minikube in it, and you've got a ready Kubernetes for completing the course tasks." This is, in general, a good option if you already have some experience, but if you don't have enough, then instead of focusing on Kubernetes resources, you'll spend a long time just setting up the environment, and afterward you may not have the energy or time left for the topic the course actually covers.

✔️ Relevance to daily use

It's well known that DevOps is a very broad field, and without enough exposure it's hard to say what's more important to learn first. Time is the most valuable and limited resource, so it needs to be used with maximum efficiency. When building a course outline, I always start from what's needed most often in the work of my colleagues and me.

If the balance of these parameters is off, the learning outcome deteriorates, and an unprepared person (and a student, naturally, usually doesn't have much exposure yet) won't immediately identify the cause.

You've probably often experienced that after watching a video, when it comes time to practice, it's as if everything has evaporated from your head.

I've been teaching for more than two years now, so I know what I'm talking about.

To sum up: the devopstrain platform isn't a comprehensive reference, but rather a well-thought-out roadmap with built-in practice that will get you where you need to go 😊