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AI, cloud and DevOps cheat sheets

Cheat sheets for AI and LLM apps, machine learning, cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, data engineering and security, in plain words with real pitfalls.

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  • 5120 concepts

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  • Cheat sheet · Specialise

    System design cheat sheet

    Systems that scale.

    Chapters

    1. 1Core concepts: scale, latency and availability
    2. 2Load balancing, proxies, CDNs and caching
    3. Databases: models, indexes and transactions

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 79 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    DevOps and cloud cheat sheet

    Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.

    Chapters

    1. 1Linux, the shell and scripting
    2. 2Git workflows
    3. Networking for engineers

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 79 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    Data analytics cheat sheet

    SQL, spreadsheets, dashboards, insight.

    Chapters

    1. 1What analysts do
    2. 2Spreadsheets properly
    3. SQL for analysis

    + 4 more

    • 8 chapters
    • 73 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    AI engineering cheat sheet

    Build products on LLMs and generative AI.

    Chapters

    1. 1How LLMs work: tokens and context
    2. 2Prompting and model APIs
    3. RAG: embeddings, chunking and retrieval

    + 6 more

    • 9 chapters
    • 70 concepts
    Opens with credits
  • Cheat sheet · Specialise

    Machine learning cheat sheet

    Data, models, deep learning.

    Chapters

    1. 1Python for data
    2. 2The maths you need
    3. Data cleaning and feature engineering

    + 5 more

    • 8 chapters
    • 69 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    Data engineering cheat sheet

    Pipelines, warehouses, Spark, dbt.

    Chapters

    1. 1Foundations and ingestion
    2. 2Analytical SQL and data modelling
    3. File formats, lakes and lakehouses

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 77 concepts
    Opens with credits
  • Cheat sheet · Specialise

    Cybersecurity cheat sheet

    Defend systems, test them, secure code.

    Chapters

    1. 1Security foundations
    2. 2A safe home lab
    3. Certifications

    + 2 more

    • 8 chapters
    • 62 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    Data science cheat sheet

    Statistics, pandas, ML, experiments.

    Chapters

    1. 1Code for data: Python or R
    2. 2Statistics and probability you use
    3. SQL for data work

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 76 concepts
    Opens with credits
  • Cheat sheet · Specialise

    AI agents and MCP cheat sheet

    Tool calling, MCP servers, evals.

    Chapters

    1. 1How agents work
    2. 2Tool calling from scratch
    3. Structured output and validation

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 74 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    MLOps and LLMOps cheat sheet

    Ship, serve and monitor models.

    Chapters

    1. 1From notebook to package
    2. 2Data and model versioning
    3. Experiment tracking and the registry

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 70 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    Cloud engineering cheat sheet

    One cloud in depth, with certifications.

    Chapters

    1. 1Linux and networking for cloud
    2. 2Cloud concepts and billing
    3. Identity and access

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 75 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    Platform engineering and SRE cheat sheet

    SLOs, observability, Kubernetes platforms.

    Chapters

    1. 1Reliability basics: SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
    2. 2Observability: metrics, logs and traces
    3. Incident response and postmortems

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 76 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    Network engineering cheat sheet

    Routing, switching, CCNA, cloud networks.

    Chapters

    1. 1Models, addressing and subnetting
    2. 2Switching and VLANs
    3. Routing: static, OSPF and BGP

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 72 concepts
    Opens with credits
  • Cheat sheet · Specialise

    AI security cheat sheet

    Secure LLM apps and agents, test models safely.

    Chapters

    1. 1Security foundations for AI work
    2. 2How LLM apps and agents break
    3. Risk maps: OWASP, ATLAS, NIST, SAIF

    + 6 more

    • 9 chapters
    • 78 concepts
    Opens with credits
  • Cheat sheet · Specialise

    AI governance cheat sheet

    Inventory, oversight, EU AI Act, ISO 42001.

    Chapters

    1. 1Regulations and frameworks
    2. 2AI inventory and ownership
    3. Data foundation

    + 4 more

    • 7 chapters
    • 63 concepts
    Opens with credits
  • Cheat sheet · Specialise

    Cloud cost and FinOps cheat sheet

    Read the bill, cut waste, forecast spend.

    Chapters

    1. 1How cloud billing works
    2. 2Reading the bill and tagging
    3. Allocation, showback and unit costs

    + 6 more

    • 9 chapters
    • 79 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    Docker cheat sheet

    Images, Dockerfiles, caching, small secure builds, volumes, networks, Compose, registries and debugging containers.

    Chapters

    1. 1Images, containers and the engine
    2. 2Writing a Dockerfile
    3. Layers, caching and faster builds

    + 6 more

    • 9 chapters
    • 62 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    Kubernetes cheat sheet

    Clusters, kubectl, workloads, Services, Gateway API, config, probes, scaling, storage, RBAC, Helm and debugging.

    Chapters

    1. 1How a cluster works
    2. 2kubectl essentials
    3. Pods and workload controllers

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 73 concepts
    Opens with credits
  • Cheat sheet · Specialise

    AWS cheat sheet

    The AWS services and ideas you use to build, secure, run and pay for real workloads, with CLI commands and policy JSON.

    Chapters

    1. 1Global infrastructure and accounts
    2. 2IAM and access control
    3. Compute: EC2, Lambda and containers

    + 7 more

    • 10 chapters
    • 73 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    LLM APIs cheat sheet

    Building on OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs: prompts, streaming, structured output, tools, RAG, caching, cost, evals and safety.

    Chapters

    1. 1How LLM APIs work
    2. 2Prompts, roles and sampling
    3. Streaming, structured output and images

    + 5 more

    • 8 chapters
    • 56 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    Model Context Protocol cheat sheet

    How MCP connects AI applications to tools and data: hosts and servers, messages, transports, auth, building servers and staying safe.

    Chapters

    1. 1What MCP is
    2. 2Messages and lifecycle
    3. Transports

    + 6 more

    • 9 chapters
    • 62 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    Vector databases cheat sheet

    Embeddings, similarity metrics, ANN indexes, filtering, hybrid search, reranking, RAG chunking, pgvector, dedicated stores and evaluation.

    Chapters

    1. 1Embeddings and similarity
    2. 2Nearest neighbour search
    3. Index types: HNSW, IVF and PQ

    + 6 more

    • 9 chapters
    • 64 concepts
    Opens with credits
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    LangChain and LlamaIndex cheat sheet

    RAG pipelines, retrieval quality, agents, tools, memory and evaluation in Python, with LangChain and LangGraph or LlamaIndex.

    Chapters

    1. 1RAG and agents: the big picture
    2. 2Loading and chunking
    3. Embeddings and vector stores

    + 3 more

    • 8 chapters
    • 58 concepts
    Opens with credits

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