What IT Playbook is

Tech courses that work like narrated books. You read or listen, follow interactive illustrations, and take a quick quiz at the end of every lesson.

How the courses work

Each course is a book, narrated sentence by sentence by professional-grade AI voices trained on technical material — read it, listen to it, or both, whatever helps it stick. Many illustrations are interactive, and each lesson ends with a short quiz so you can check that it actually landed. The player is built for learning, not just playback: change the speed, and add a pause between sentences, so you can settle into a pace that's comfortable for you — slow to absorb, faster to review.

Listened vs. Learned

Sign in and we track two things separately: lessons you've listened to, and lessons you've learned — the ones where you passed the quiz. Getting through a lesson isn't the same as being able to prove it, so you always see both. Your progress follows you across devices.

Always current

IT moves fast, and an out-of-date tutorial is worse than none. So every course is checked against the official documentation and updated whenever the tools change — the aim is that nothing you read here is stale. New courses land every month, and they're all included in your subscription.

About the AI

Yes — a lot of AI goes into this. A whole fleet of AI agents helps draft and maintain the courses. But nothing ships on autopilot: every change is reviewed by a human before it reaches you.

Who it's for

Anyone comfortable reading a little code and the basics of how software runs — whether this is your first serious stack, a switch into a new field, or closing a specific gap. No gatekeeping; start wherever you are. And you don't have to guess where to begin: every course opens with an introduction that lays out its prerequisites — and if it isn't the right fit, points you to a course that is.

About the author

I'm Sergey Okinchuk, a Senior DevOps Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the past decade, I've built and operated cloud infrastructure at a range of Silicon Valley companies — from small startups to one of the largest tech giants in the industry — across healthcare, robotics, online retail, IoT, embedded devices, security analytics, ML, and SaaS. I've earned a number of professional certifications across Google Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, and others between 2020 and 2026.

How IT Playbook started

Honestly, this began as a tool for myself. I was prepping for job interviews and wanted to go through dense technical material the way I actually learn best — reading and listening at the same time, at my own pace, with a quick quiz after each topic to make it stick (in my experience, quizzes are what do that). I couldn't find anything that worked like that, so I built a rough, bare-bones version just for me. I showed it to a few friends, they liked it far more than I expected, and they're the ones who talked me into making it public.

Feedback

Got an idea, a correction, or a course you'd love to see? Signed-in members can reach me through Support — I read everything.