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Phase 8 · Technical Fluency for PMs

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Cloud & Infra Basics

Part of the Product Management Roadmap.

Summary

High-level familiarity with concepts like servers, hosting, deployment and uptime — enough to understand why an outage happened without needing to fix it yourself.

How to Learn This

  • 1Learn the basic difference between a server, a database, and a CDN, in plain terms.
  • 2Read a public post-mortem from a well-known outage and note the root cause.
  • 3Understand what 'uptime' (e.g. 99.9%) means in practical downtime terms.

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How APIs WorkClient-Server BasicsDatabases 101 for PMsSystem Design Basics for PMsTechnical DebtWorking Effectively With EngineersEstimation & Trade-off ConversationsLatency, Scalability & Reliability BasicsReading a Technical SpecNo-Code / Low-Code Tools for PMs
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