> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://www.christiandussol.dev/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://www.christiandussol.dev/learning-journey/guides.md).

# Guides

Official documentation explains *what* a service does. It rarely explains *when* to choose it, and almost never explains when not to.

Everything here was written the other way round. These started as study material I wrote for myself while preparing certifications, and they turned out to be useful to other people, which was not the plan but is the better outcome. All of it is public.

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## In this section

#### [Azure Architecture Decision Guides](/learning-journey/guides/azure-architecture-decision-guides.md)

Decision matrices, anti-patterns, and trade-off analysis across the AZ-305 domains. Written to answer the question the official docs skip: given these constraints, what do you actually choose, and what do you refuse?

#### [Kubernetes References](/learning-journey/guides/kubernetes-references.md)

The commands I actually reach for, and a resource management guide I wish had existed before I broke a production deployment learning it the hard way.