Observability
If you like applying Observability, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Design Prompt Versioning and Observability for a Coding Assistant
You will (1) design a prompt-registry data model (versions, owners, environments, change log) and implement it in Postgres + a small Python SDK, (2) instrument the assistant to …
- Prompt Versioning
- Observability
- Pii Scrubbing
LLM Application Development - DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Multi-Region Online Inference Service with SLAs
Design the topology: model artifact storage, regional inference fleets (Triton, vLLM, or BentoML), traffic router, observability stack (Prometheus + Grafana). Pick a rollout str…
- Inference Serving
- Multi Region Deployment
- Kubernetes
Machine Learning Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Instrument a Model Monitoring Stack from Scratch
Pick the priority product (recommend the customer-service RAG assistant, around 40k queries/day). Define monitoring signals: input drift (Evidently/NannyML), output quality (LLM…
- Model Monitoring
- Data Drift Detection
- LLM Evaluation
ML Engineering and Production ML - DesignIntermediateNew
Observability for a Microservices Payments Platform
Design the observability architecture: OpenTelemetry traces from 38 services into Tempo, structured logs via Loki, RED (rate, errors, duration) metrics via Prometheus, SLOs defi…
- Observability
- Opentelemetry
- Slo Design
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Change-Impact Analysis for a Cross-Service API Migration
Pull API logs over 30 days from the API gateway to enumerate all consumers + per-endpoint call volume. Cross-reference with service-catalog ownership to map 23 consumers to team…
- Change Impact Analysis
- API Migration
- Parallel Run
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design SLO-Driven Alerts for a Telco's Subscriber API
Receive a 90-day RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) metrics export for the subscriber API across 6 endpoints and 38 weeks of paging history. Define an SLO per endpoint (e.g., 99.9 per…
- Slo Design
- Alerting
- Prometheus
Software Observability - CodeIntermediateNew
Roll Out OpenTelemetry Tracing Across a Microservices Fintech
Receive an anonymized service map (90 services, payment-critical path of 12), a runtime mix (Node.js, Go, Java), and existing logging/metrics setup. Define: an OTel SDK adoption…
- Distributed Tracing
- Opentelemetry
- Sampling Strategies
Software Observability - CodeIntermediateNew
Stand Up a Backstage Developer Portal for a Frankfurt Fintech
Using the provided service inventory, ownership map, and rollout brief, build and deploy a Backstage portal on the company's existing Kubernetes platform and populate its catalo…
- Backstage
- Platform Engineering
- Service Catalog
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Diagnose Route-Optimize Latency Tail Using Distributed Traces
Working only from the four supplied materials — the slow-trace export, the service map, the customer complaint log, and the infrastructure health readings — examine why the slow…
- Distributed Tracing
- Performance Analysis
- Tempo
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