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Discover expertly curated tech guides and insights to elevate your skills and stay ahead in the industry

  • The brief, the directory, and the operator tools for techguides — in one place
  • Vetted suppliers and contributors, ranked by working operators
  • Anonymous benchmarks across peer operations of your size and stage
  • Free for working operators. Paid for suppliers and recruiters.
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What you get

Tools and signal that hold up in the kitchen — and the back office.

Working playbooks

Real techguides patterns from engineers and ops — incident response, deploys, on-call rotations.

Operator directory

Vetted techguides contacts — staff engineers, SREs, platform leads — by stack and stage.

Stack benchmarks

Anonymous benchmarks across techguides teams — deploy frequency, MTTR, change failure rate.

Operator tools

Calculators and templates for techguides — cost-per-request, infra ROI, capacity plans.

The TechGuides brief

Weekly notes from techguides engineers and operators — what shipped, what broke, what to ignore.

Contributors

Built by the people doing the work.

Working operators submit shift notes, vet suppliers, and run the playbooks. Contributors get visibility, credit, and — over time — a stake in the venture. Powered by Contrib.com.

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Common questions, plain answers.

Who is TechGuides.com for?
Working operators in techguides — the people running the day-to-day. Suppliers and recruiters too, but they pay. Operators don't.
How is TechGuides.com different from a trade publication?
It's a network, not a magazine. The notes come from people doing techguides work this week — not freelancers covering it from outside.
What does a free membership cover?
All editorial, the directory browsing, and the operator tools for one operation. Pro tier unlocks benchmarks and contributor outreach.
What does it mean to be part of a network?
This is one of a roster of independent ventures sharing identity, payments, and member infrastructure. Each one runs on its own; together they amplify.
Can I contribute?
Yes — that's the model. Submit a brief, share a playbook, vet a supplier. Working contributors get visibility, credit, and (over time) a stake in the venture.