Hands-on and honest
We show the work as it happens, including the mistakes, dead ends, and fixes that make technical learning real.
About
Cloud native education built in public
Rawkode Academy helps engineers understand modern infrastructure by watching real people build, break, debug, and explain real systems.
60K+ Developers reached
500+ Hours of content
90+ Projects featured
Mission
Make complex systems easier to learn without pretending they are simple
We care about the full path from curiosity to production confidence: context, trade-offs, tooling, mistakes, and repetition.
Maintainer-first
We bring creators and contributors into the room so learners hear the decisions, constraints, and trade-offs from the people closest to the project.
Future-looking
We track emerging runtimes, infrastructure patterns, and developer workflows before they become default practice.
Story
A builder's path into teaching
Full-stack builder and accidental SRE
David worked across ticketing systems, custom kernels, QT point-of-sale apps, early mobile devices, and automation that shaped a long-running interest in reliable systems.
Scaling TeamRock
As Director of Development, he helped move workloads from virtual machines to containers on AWS during a period of intense traffic growth.
Developer advocate at InfluxData
Working with Kubernetes metrics, Telegraf, and operators made education, live demos, and direct technical support a daily practice.
Rawkode Academy launches
The first video set the tone for live, practical exploration of cloud native tools and the people behind them.
Still experimenting in public
The academy now mixes shows, articles, partnerships, consulting, and training around the same core idea: learn by doing the real work.
Formats
How we teach
Everything is built around practical exposure to tools, maintainers, and trade-offs.
Rawkode Live
Live sessions with maintainers and practitioners exploring releases, ideas, bugs, and production patterns.
Live codingMaintainer accessReal troubleshooting
Klustered
A Kubernetes troubleshooting format where experts repair deliberately broken clusters under pressure.
KubernetesIncident responseOperational intuition
Learning paths
Curated sequences of articles, shows, and courses that turn broad topics into practical progression.
Self-pacedCurated resourcesActionable outcomes
Origin clips
Two moments that shaped the academy
Last Week in Kubernetes
The first format that proved live, curious exploration could work.
Klustered
Kubernetes troubleshooting turned into shared, high-signal learning.
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