Hello friends!
Ivan's here - with some great iximiuz Labs news!
Slightly more than a year ago, I put out this improvised manifesto on my freshly created (at the time) Patreon page. It was about my vision for the tech blog - I wasn't satisfied with the fully static form of content I was producing, so I embarked on a journey to transform my blog into something much more helpful for the readers. A year, one month, and two weeks in, I'm happy to announce that iximiuz Labs, my shiny new interactive learning platform, is entering the v1.0 stage! š
With the recent release of the new content format - DevOps Challenges - and a major overall UI redesign, the platform has finally reached initial feature completeness.
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Today, absolutely free of charge, you can use iximiuz Labs to:
All three forms of content have always meant to be complementary, and with just one of them missing, the realization of the vision would be incomplete. Finally, you should be able to feel the synergy in this graduating piece on container networking šŖ My hope is that it sets a new standard for the technical learning content.
I still cannot fully comprehend that since the public announcement in May 2023, more than 4000 users have registered on the platform, and so many play hours have been spent by the students.
But what's even more mind-boggling is the numbers of the just started 2024. Less than a week since the release of the challenges, we've already got 150 correct solutions submitted š¤Æ
Go give them a try if you haven't!
Thank you for supporting my work! Off to writing the next tutorial!
Best
Ivan
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