Vulkan in 30 minutes
I've written this post with a specific target audience in mind, namely those who have a good grounding in existing APIs (e.g. D3D11 and GL) and understand the concepts of multithreading, staging resources, synchronisation and so on but want to know specifically how they are implemented in Vulkan. So we end up with a whirlwind tour of what the main Vulkan concepts look like.
This isn't intended to be comprehensive (for that you should read the spec or a more in-depth tutorial), nor is it heavy in background or justification. Hopefully by the end of this you should be able to read specs or headers and have a sketched idea of how a simple Vulkan application is implemented, but you will need to do additional reading.
Mostly, this is the document I wish had already been written when I first encountered Vulkan - so for the most part it is tuned to what I would have wanted to know. I'll reference the spec whenever you should do more reading to get a precise understanding, but you'll at least know what to look for.
At the end of the post I've included a heavily abbreviated pseudocode program showing the rough steps to a hello world triangle, to match up to the explanations.
