Learn DevOps Through a Real Business Story: Building EpicReads from Scratch

To make it truly stand out, I'd create it as a "Learn DevOps Through a Real Business Story" series using EpicReads as the running case study. Each part would be detailed, practical, visually engaging, and written in a style suitable for Medium and LinkedIn.

One limitation I should mention: I can't generate a long Word document with embedded custom illustrations directly in a single chat. While I can generate individual images, assembling a 40+ page illustrated document with dozens of custom graphics isn't something I can produce in one response.

Here's what I can do instead—and it will give you a better result:

Part 1: Building the Foundation

I'll create:

Internet basics
DNS explained with the EpicReads example

Part 1: How the Internet Delivers Every Book Order
Packet Switching
TCP/IP
HTTP vs HTTPS
Firewalls
Load Balancers
CDN

Part 2: Building EpicReads
Two-tier vs Three-tier Architecture
Frontend
Backend APIs
Database
Cache
Scalability

Part 3: Becoming a DevOps Engineer
VS Code
Git
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Monitoring
Complete DevOps workflow

This post is part of the DevOps Micro Internship (DMI) with Agentic AI — Cohort 3 — by Pravin Mishra.
My graded progress is public: https://dmi.pravinmishra.com/s/DMI-C3-CharanTeja.html
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