Don't Get Stuck: Get Answers

Chapter 1. Don’t Get Stuck: Get Answers

O’Reilly online learning has the best collection of technical content in the world. Whether you’re starting from scratch to learn the fundamentals of a well-established programming language, bringing cloud-based architecture to your organization, or exploring emerging tech, we’ve got you covered.

But it might be possible to have too much of a good thing. The downside of having such a comprehensive offering is that people can quickly become overwhelmed. Without pathways to discover relevant content, you might miss out on the best of what O’Reilly has to offer. Our traditional search interface does a fantastic job at surfacing content by topic, title, or author. But when you have a specific question in mind, searching by metadata and keywords sometimes isn’t enough to find your answer quickly.

That’s why we created O’Reilly Answers. With Answers, you can solve your most pressing technical problems—fast: simply ask a question, and we’ll surface the most relevant excerpts that answer the question, pulling directly from our rich library of content. In doing so, we’re hoping to spare you from having to drill down into a volume of text and scan through dense chapters and paragraphs. Instead, the answer is right there in front of you. O’Reilly Answers is available today on O’Reilly online learning, with an accompanying Slack app already online for our enterprise users.

The Technical Details

When we began working on O’Reilly Answers, it became clear ...