Overview
What this challenge is about.
Design SLO-Driven Alerts for a Telco's Subscriber API. Advanced challenge in design. Designing real products under real constraints, earn a blockchain-verifi...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Redesign alerting around SLOs and multi-window burn-rate alerts to cut non-actionable pages in half without missing real incidents.
This is not a design exercise. It is the work a product designer does between a brief and a shipped interface. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates redesign Spotify's homepage and none who have worked under real product constraints.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Define SLOs grounded in user-experience signals, not infrastructure metrics
- Compute error budgets and burn-rate alerts at multiple windows
- Author Prometheus + Alertmanager rule libraries that survive review
- Evaluate alerting changes against actual paging history honestly
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Software Observability
Master · Cloud And Devops
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Software Observability at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Slo Design
Apply slo design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Alerting
Apply alerting to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Prometheus
Apply prometheus to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Error Budgets
Apply error budgets to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Observability
Apply observability to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Incident Response
Apply incident response to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles: