RouterGods is a networking community organised around live technical sessions and shared lab work. It belongs to a tradition of engineers teaching each other directly, which predates the current market in packaged training.
The format is the substance. Sessions are worked through in real time rather than recorded and edited, so the material includes the wrong turns, the misconfigurations, and the diagnosis that follows, which is the part that formal courses remove and the part that most resembles actual work. Topics run across routing protocols, service provider technologies, and certification level material, and the collaborative structure means questions are answered by people who ran into the same problem rather than by an instructor working from a syllabus. Access to shared lab environments matters more than it appears to, because the cost and complexity of building a representative topology is the usual barrier between reading about a protocol and understanding how it behaves when something breaks. Communities of this kind have become less common as technical education consolidated into subscription platforms with production values and fixed curricula, and something specific was lost in that transition, namely the willingness to show a session going wrong.
It suits engineers who learn by doing rather than by watching, and who are comfortable with a format that is unpolished by design. The trade is that material is less structured than a formal course, so it complements a syllabus rather than replacing one.
Link: routergods.com