How a Process Really Works
As a DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer you see many varieties of processes in the wild; Microservices writing to a database, a CI pipeline which runs linters and unit tests, the Docker ecosystem itself is

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Series
I started this series to help DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineers like myself delve deeper into concepts they encounter daily to really understand what is going on under the hood. The more experienced we get, the further the abstractions go, drilling down on the fundamentals allows us to be confident on why something works the way that it does and make informed design decisions in our daily work.
As a DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer you see many varieties of processes in the wild; Microservices writing to a database, a CI pipeline which runs linters and unit tests, the Docker ecosystem itself is

You've typed a URL into a browser more times than you can count. You've also, at some point, been the engineer paged because "DNS is broken", and if you're honest, you probably fixed it without fully
