Pathways
Name a goal. Get the route there.
Everything else in delve answers a question. Pathways answers a bigger one: what do I need to learn, and in what order, to actually be able to do this?
Pathway
6 steps · 36 min total
YOUR GOAL
I want to learn Terraform
Terraform Fundamentals: From IaC Novice to Practitioner
Learn to define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform, starting from core concepts through practical hands-on application.
What infrastructure as code actually solves
Why clicking through a console stops scaling, and what a file full of infrastructure buys you instead.
Declarative vs. imperative thinking
You describe the end state, not the steps. The shift that makes everything after this make sense.
Providers, resources and the dependency graph
How Terraform works out what to build first without you ever telling it the order.
State: the file that makes it all work
What state actually stores, why it's the thing that breaks, and how teams keep it safe.
Plan, apply, and reading a diff properly
The loop you'll live in. What a plan is really telling you before you let it run.
Workspaces, environments and drift in a team
Staging and production from one codebase, and what to do when reality moves without you.
How it works
You write the goal, not a search term
"I want to learn Terraform." "I want to understand options trading." "I want to play tennis." A sentence in your own words. Say whether you're starting cold or already know your way around, and the route is pitched there.
It builds a route of three to six topics
Not a reading list scraped together. An ordered path, where each topic only assumes what the one before it taught — and the last one gets you to the thing you actually said you wanted.
You work down it
Each step is a full delve topic in its own right: a video, prose in three depths, an AI to interrogate. Tick one off and the path fills in behind you, so you can always see how far along you are.
Or take one someone already built
Paths other people have made sit under Trending, ready to open. Yours are kept too — start one, put it down for a week, and it's waiting exactly where you left it.
What one looks like
Your goal
I want to learn Terraform
Terraform Fundamentals: From IaC Novice to Practitioner
Learn to define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform, starting from core concepts through practical hands-on application.
- 1Foundation5 min
What infrastructure as code actually solves
Why clicking through a console stops scaling, and what a file full of infrastructure buys you instead.
- 2Foundation5 min
Declarative vs. imperative thinking
You describe the end state, not the steps. The shift that makes everything after this make sense.
- 3Core7 min
Providers, resources and the dependency graph
How Terraform works out what to build first without you ever telling it the order.
- 4Core6 min
State: the file that makes it all work
What state actually stores, why it's the thing that breaks, and how teams keep it safe.
- 5Practice6 min
Plan, apply, and reading a diff properly
The loop you'll live in. What a plan is really telling you before you let it run.
- 6Mastery7 min
Workspaces, environments and drift in a team
Staging and production from one codebase, and what to do when reality moves without you.
Steps run Foundation → Core → Practice → Mastery — the last one is the goal itself, not wherever the reading ran out.
Or take one someone already built.
Every path anyone builds joins Trending, cover and all. Open one, work down it, and it lands in My Pathways beside your own — put it down for a week and it's waiting exactly where you left it.
Pathway
Name a goal — get the route there
YOUR GOAL
I want to learn…
Trending pathways
Terraform Fundamentals: From IaC Novice to Practitioner
Advanced Motorcycle Riding: Precision & Safety Mastery
Chess Fundamentals to Winning Positions
Why the order matters
Most self-teaching fails on sequence, not effort. You hit the thing that assumed something you never learned, and quietly stop. A path exists to remove that moment.
It knows where it ends
A path is built backwards from your goal, so the final step is the goal itself — not wherever the reading happened to run out.
Keep looking
Try it on something
you actually care about.