# 👋 **Welcome to the Nais developer documentation!**

Here you'll find *explanations*
[^1], *how-to guides*
[^2], and *references*
[^3] for all things Nais.

### 🌱 **New to Nais?**

Start here to get an idea of the fundamentals.

- 👌 [**What is Nais?**](/explanations/nais.md)
- 🧑‍🎓 [**Your first application; Hello Nais**](/tutorials/hello-nais.md)

### 🧑‍💻 **Already familiar with Nais?**

What can we help you with today?

- 📦 [**Run your code**](/workloads.md)
- 🚀 [**Build and deploy your code**](/build.md)
- 📂 [**Store your data**](/persistence.md)
- 🔐 [**Auth your users and workloads**](/auth.md)
- 🔭 [**Gain insight into your workloads**](/observability.md)
- 🔧 [**Manage your workloads and services**](/operate.md)
- ➕ [**Explore the rest of Nais**](/services.md)

[^1]: 💡 [*explanations*](/tags/explanation/) present higher-level concepts. Most useful when you want to understand how Nais works.
[^2]: 🎯 [*how-to guides*](/tags/how-to/) help you achieve a specific goal. Most useful when you're trying to get something done.
[^3]: 📚 [*references*](/tags/reference/) contain technical descriptions and specifications. Most useful when you need to look up details about a specific feature.