# Academy

Academy is an article/video list recommended by the committer team.

- [STAM Paper](../papers/stam.md) about the fundamental theory of SkyWalking tracing models.

- [Blog](https://skywalking.apache.org/blog/2022-01-24-scaling-with-apache-skywalking/) about Scaling SkyWalking server automatically in kubernetes.

- [Blog](https://skywalking.apache.org/blog/2020-04-13-apache-skywalking-profiling/) about Use Profiling to Fix the Blind Spot of Distributed Tracing.

- [Blog](https://skywalking.apache.org/blog/2020-12-03-obs-service-mesh-with-sw-and-als/) about observing Istio + Envoy service mesh with ALS solution.

- [Blog](https://skywalking.apache.org/blog/obs-service-mesh-vm-with-sw-and-als/) about observing Istio + Envoy service mesh with ALS Metadata-Exchange mechanism (in VMs and / or Kubernetes).