Curated Learning Resources Vault 📚
Escape tutorial hell. Explore 32+ handpicked books, interactive platforms, and architectural guides vetted by senior staff engineers across all 8 career tracks.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
By Martin Kleppmann • 🔴 Advanced
The definitive bible on data systems, replication, partitioning, transactions, consensus, and batch/stream processing.
DeepLearning.AI: Prompt Engineering for Developers
By Andrew Ng & OpenAI • 🟢 Beginner
Taught by Andrew Ng and Isa Fulford (OpenAI). Covers prompt design, system instructions, structured JSON outputs, and text expansion.
Lenny's Newsletter & Podcast Archive
By Lenny Rachitsky • 🟡 Intermediate
Actionable advice on product management, growth strategies, PRD frameworks, prioritization, and landing a PM job.
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
By Marty Cagan • 🟢 Beginner
The industry manifesto by the founder of Silicon Valley Product Group explaining product discovery vs product delivery.
Refactoring UI
By Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger • 🟢 Beginner
Practical design manual showing how to build clean, professional interfaces using tactical tricks instead of abstract theory.
PortSwigger Web Security Academy
By PortSwigger • 🟡 Intermediate
Free online training on web security vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, CSRF, SSRF, IDOR) from the makers of Burp Suite with live labs.
Full Stack Open — Deep Dive into Modern Web Development
By University of Helsinki • 🟡 Intermediate
University of Helsinki free course on React, Redux, Node.js, REST APIs, GraphQL, TypeScript, and CI/CD with automated grading.
Building Applications with Vector Databases & RAG
By Pinecone & DeepLearning.AI • 🟡 Intermediate
Hands-on implementation of dense embeddings, semantic search, hybrid re-ranking, and retrieval-augmented generation.
TryHackMe: Pre-Security & Complete Beginner Path
By TryHackMe • 🟢 Beginner
Hands-on browser-based virtual machines teaching networking fundamentals, Linux commands, web apps, and defensive security.
Test Automation University (TAU)
By Applitools & Angie Jones • 🟢 Beginner
Free, community-driven online learning platform offering courses on Cypress, Playwright, API testing, and CI pipelines.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Free Video Course
By freeCodeCamp & Andrew Brown • 🟢 Beginner
Complete exam preparation covering EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, and AWS pricing models for entry cloud engineers.
Python for Data Analysis (3rd Edition)
By Wes McKinney • 🟡 Intermediate
Written by the creator of pandas. The gold standard for data wrangling, cleaning, reshaping, and exploratory analysis in Python.
Playwright: Fast and Reliable End-to-End Testing
By Microsoft • 🟢 Beginner
Official guides and interactive trace viewer for modern end-to-end testing across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
Docker & Kubernetes: The Complete Guide
By Stephen Grider • 🟡 Intermediate
Deep dive into container architecture, image layers, multi-container compose, Kubernetes pods, services, and ingress.
The Modern JavaScript Tutorial (javascript.info)
By Ilya Kantor • 🟢 Beginner
From fundamentals to advanced topics including closures, prototypes, event loops, promises, and async/await with clean interactive sandboxes.
Figma YouTube Academy & Tutorials
By Figma • 🟢 Beginner
Official video guides on Auto Layout, component properties, variants, responsive constraints, and developer handoff.
Mode Analytics SQL School
By Mode • 🟢 Beginner
Hands-on guide to writing business SQL, subqueries, aggregations, and window functions on real e-commerce datasets.
The Illustrated Transformer & Attention
By Jay Alammar • 🟡 Intermediate
A visually rich, intuitive walkthrough of scaled dot-product attention, multi-head projections, and encoder-decoder mechanisms.
Professor Messer CompTIA Security+ Training Course
By Professor Messer • 🟢 Beginner
Comprehensive free video series covering every single domain of the CompTIA Security+ certification curriculum.
Laws of UX Visual Catalog
By Jon Yablonski • 🟢 Beginner
A visual collection of psychological heuristics and behavioral design principles (Fitts’s Law, Hick’s Law, Miller’s Law).
Practical Test Pyramid by Martin Fowler
By Ham Vocke & Martin Fowler • 🟡 Intermediate
A deep dive into unit, integration, and UI testing trade-offs, avoiding test flakiness, and maximizing feedback loops.
Nielsen Norman Group UX Articles & Research
By NN/g • 🟡 Intermediate
Authoritative evidence-based usability research, usability heuristics, eye-tracking patterns, and accessibility guidelines.
Standard 1-Page PRD Template & Checklist
By Atlassian • 🟢 Beginner
Battle-tested requirements document template with user stories, acceptance criteria, and out-of-scope sections.
Learn Terraform: Official HashiCorp Tutorials
By HashiCorp • 🟡 Intermediate
Step-by-step guides to provisioning infrastructure as code, managing state files, and structuring modular architectures.
LangChain & LlamaIndex Official Documentation
By LangChain • 🟡 Intermediate
Comprehensive code guides for building agentic workflows, memory persistence, tool calling, and evaluation pipelines.
Kaggle Learn: Practical Machine Learning
By Kaggle • 🟡 Intermediate
Bite-sized micro-courses with interactive browser notebooks covering feature engineering, XGBoost, and model validation.
Postman API Testing & Automation Fundamentals
By Postman • 🟢 Beginner
Learn how to write JavaScript assertions, test HTTP status codes, chain authentication tokens, and run Newman CLI tests.
OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks
By OWASP Foundation • 🟡 Intermediate
The standard awareness document for developers and web application security detailing the 10 most critical attack vectors.
Product School Free Micro-Certifications
By Product School • 🟢 Beginner
Webinars, templates, and mini courses on Agile roadmapping, customer empathy interviews, and sprint grooming.
Storytelling with Data
By Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic • 🟢 Beginner
A foundational guide to eliminating chart clutter, choosing visual forms, and crafting compelling data presentations for executives.
SQLBolt — Interactive SQL Exercises
By SQLBolt • 🟢 Beginner
Interactive in-browser lessons teaching SELECT queries, filtering, aggregations, JOINs, and schema updates with zero setup required.
Linux Command Line Cheat Sheet
By William Shotts • 🟢 Beginner
Clear reference for file management, process monitoring, permissions, SSH keys, pipes, and redirection.