Learning Hub / Observability & Reliability
SRE & Production Incident Response
Advanced → Architect7 lessonsAvailable
A scenario-based track. Each case gives you the symptom, the misleading first signal, the evidence that redirected the investigation, and the prevention, all reconstructed as generic patterns.
You'll meetRCAincident commandblast radiuspartial rolloutsSLOspostmortem
Start lesson 01 →
What you'll be able to do
- Run an investigation by elimination, not by guessing
- Write RCAs that prevent the whole class of failure
- Tell an incident story clearly in two minutes
Before you start
Hands-on operations experience.
How it works
Each lesson: plain-language idea → how it really works → hands-on. Each section ends with a cheat sheet & self-check.
Curriculum
Lessons marked “Read” are ready; the rest are on the way.
Method
- 01The shape of a strong RCASituation, claim, pivot, elimination, root cause, fix, prevention, honestyRead →
- 02Incident command & communicationRoles, updates, handoversRead →
- 03Architecture antipatternsDesigns that make outages possibleRead →
- 📋Cheat sheet & self-checkEvery command from this section on one page, then 9 questions to check yourself.Open →
Fleet-scale scenarios
- 04Partial rolloutsWhen a deploy reaches most, but not all, of the fleetRead →
- 05Automation blast radiusFast automation, fast outages: limits and canariesRead →
- 06Cold-start dependency loopsServices that can't start because each needs the otherRead →
- 07Symptom-based monitoringAlert on what users feel, not what hosts reportRead →
- 📋Cheat sheet & self-checkEvery command from this section on one page, then 12 questions to check yourself.Open →
Real-world scenarios
Work through each one: symptom → misleading signal → evidence → root cause → prevention.
The message queue won't recover after a power cut
Recovering state after an unclean shutdown.
The registry went down, and so did every deploy
Removing hidden single points of failure.
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