# Zero to Production Engineer This path is for engineers who want to build a practical foundation in production engineering. ## Path 1. [[Topics/Production Engineering]] - Start with the big picture: what production engineering is trying to protect. 2. [[Field Notes/SLO]] - Learn how reliability becomes measurable. 3. [[Field Notes/Runbook]] - Understand how operational knowledge is captured. 4. [[Field Notes/Incident Review]] - Learn how teams improve after failures. 5. [[Articles/Tracing System Calls at a High Level]] - Build a systems mental model for how user code crosses into the kernel. 6. [[Field Notes/Backpressure]] - Learn the core overload concept behind resilient systems. 7. [[Field Notes/Tail Latency]] - Understand why averages are often misleading. 8. [[Projects/Uptime Monitor]] - Connect the concepts to a concrete reliability product. ## Related - [[Topics/Linux & Systems]] - [[Topics/Observability]]