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This is a fine answer if you're responsible for a small numbers of technologies, otherwise there are far too many "top to bottom" docs to read in a lifetime, let alone the time you have to meet whatever deadline is in front of you.

Where it gets even trickier, is that these days nobody is responsible for just a small numbers of technologies.

Does your app use the internet? Read about TCP/IP and DNS and other internet technologies top to bottom. Does your app use a database? Read the DB docs top to bottom. How about multiple data stores? Is you app publicly facing? Read about 100 different potential security issues top to bottom. I could go on...



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