This may sound counterintuitive, but in the era of AI, less is more. AI can help anyone write code faster, but it can't replace an understanding of how production systems actually work. The competitive advantage isn't knowing more tools—it's understanding the fundamentals that every production application is built on. Mastering those fundamentals may be the way to do more with less.
Every good basketball coach will tell you the same thing: you have to work on the fundamentals every day. That’s exactly what the Production Engineering MLH Fellowship is designed to do: teach you how to maintain systems from scratch. It teaches you how to get a good grasp on the fundamentals and how to expand on any and all areas should you choose to.
The material builds on itself week after week pretty seamlessly. Although you may not leave the fellowship being an expert in any particular field—Docker, testing, or Linux—it does give you the fundamentals to expand on each subject later on.
For example, say that you want to become an expert in testing. After the fellowship, you’ll understand:
What testing is.
