Research Wiki
Every cert, book, course, and salary number on this site cites a verifiable source. The wiki is where those sources live — fully-cited deep-dive research across every IT domain, vendor, role, industry, and cross-cutting concern.
- Total files
- 135
- Domains
- 12
- Ecosystems
- 67
- Roadmaps
- 10
- Industries
- 13
- Specialty
- 24
Domains
12 filesIT domain deep-dives — Foundation, Networking, Cloud, Security, Data/AI, etc. Cert ladders × all 4 levels with prep, salary, books, YouTube, conferences.
Ecosystems
67 filesVendor / platform ecosystems. Full cert lineups with exam codes, fees, retirement dates, recommended courses. AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Cisco, Splunk, etc.
- D01Microsoft Dynamics365 Ecosystem
- D02Oracle Ecosystem
- D03Healthcare IT
- D04AWS Ecosystem
- D05Microsoft Azure M365 Ecosystem
- D06Workday Ecosystem
- D07Adobe Experience Cloud
- D08Observability Platforms
- D09Salesforce Ecosystem
- D10SAP Ecosystem
- D11ServiceNow Ecosystem
- D12IBM Ecosystem
- D13VMware Broadcom Ecosystem
- D14Cisco Ecosystem
- D15Juniper Ecosystem
- D16HashiCorp Ecosystem
- D17PaloAlto Networks Ecosystem
- D18CrowdStrike Ecosystem
- D19Atlassian Ecosystem
- D20MuleSoft Ecosystem
- D21Fortinet Ecosystem
- D22CheckPoint Ecosystem
- D23F5 Ecosystem
- D24NetApp Ecosystem
- D25PureStorage Ecosystem
- D26Veeam Ecosystem
- D27Nutanix Ecosystem
- D28Okta Ecosystem
- D29CyberArk Ecosystem
- D30Snowflake Ecosystem
- D31Databricks Ecosystem
- D32Splunk Ecosystem
- D33Aruba HPE Ecosystem
- D34Arista Ecosystem
- D35SailPoint Ecosystem
- D36Cloudflare Ecosystem
- D37SentinelOne Ecosystem
- D38Zscaler Ecosystem
- D39Akamai Ecosystem
- D40Commvault Ecosystem
- D41Rubrik Ecosystem
- D42Cohesity Ecosystem
- D43Citrix Ecosystem
- D44Tableau Ecosystem
- D45Wiz Ecosystem
- D46Druva Ecosystem
- D47Veritas Arctera Ecosystem
- D48Imperva Ecosystem
- D49BeyondTrust Ecosystem
- D50Delinea Ecosystem
- D51TrendMicro Ecosystem
- D52Sophos Ecosystem
- D53Mimecast Ecosystem
- D54Proofpoint Ecosystem
- D55Tenable Ecosystem
- D56Qualys Ecosystem
- D57Docker Ecosystem
- D58MongoDB Ecosystem
- D59Confluent Apache Kafka Ecosystem
- D60dbt Labs Ecosystem
- D61TOGAF Open Group Ecosystem
- D62HubSpot Ecosystem
- D63Cloudera Ecosystem
- D64Informatica Ecosystem
- D65Pega Ecosystem
- D66ASQ Ecosystem
- D67SentinelOne Ecosystem
Roadmaps
10 filesCareer-role progressions. Junior → Mid → Senior → Expert with day-in-life, certs, salary by region, lateral pivots.
Industries
13 filesIndustry-vertical guides. Regulators, core platforms, salary hubs, cert pathways for FinServ, Gov/Def, Healthcare, etc.
- IND01Financial Services IT
- IND02Government Defense IT
- IND03Manufacturing OT IT
- IND04Retail Ecommerce IT
- IND05Telecom ServiceProvider IT
- IND06Energy Utilities IT
- IND07Education EdTech IT
- IND08Insurance IT
- IND09Aviation Aerospace IT
- IND10Legal IT
- IND11Hospitality Travel IT
- IND12Real Estate PropTech
- IND13Media Broadcasting IT
Specialty Roles
24 filesSpecialty role deep-dives. Pentester, DFIR, Privacy, ICS/OT, Salesforce CTA, etc. Each with market context, lab tooling, salary, day-in-life.
- SR01Mainframe to Cloud
- SR02Wireless Engineer
- SR03Pentester RedTeam
- SR04DFIR Analyst
- SR05Privacy Engineer
- SR06ICS OT Security
- SR07Bug Bounty
- SR08Salesforce to CTA
- SR09SAP Functional to Architect
- SR10ServiceNow to CMA
- SR11Dynamics Architect
- SR12Oracle DBA Path
- SR13Workday Path
- SR14Game Developer
- SR15Embedded Engineer
- SR16Mobile Developer
- SR17Sales Engineer
- SR18DevRel
- SR19TPM
- SR20Tech Writer
- SR21Healthcare IT Analyst
- SR22AI ML Engineer
- SR23Platform SRE Engineer
- SR24GRC Compliance Specialist
Cross-cutting
9 filesOrthogonal topics that cut across roles — AI impact, international salary, career changers, first-job mechanics, comp negotiation, side income, visas, burnout, diversity.